....but of course, not stale.

Unless you are more detailed on what you consider stale, no sensible answer can be given here. Any person giving you advice would just be posting personal preference - as your post does not give enough information to give even a remotely sane advice.

But pray me, what has this to do with Perl? Surely, your question is utterly devoid on any dependency of the language in which you've written the business logic of your site?