I have no exprience with perl.
What I'm trying to do is have a script/program constantly (perpetually) running on my server so that it performs a routine (like every hour) and automatic check of something like the current weather in Tokyo and records it.
The catch is that I want this to be done back-end and automatically without someone having to go onto the website and doing a "check" or something. This would mean that the script must be running continuously.
Is this possible at all? Can perl for example run continuously on a (remote) server?