Perl, a good solution?

I am thinking of turning my web site into a dynamic one so my updates will be a lot much faster done than revising all the html files I got (around 7000 now). But I'm thinking if Perl would be good enough cause I can't use PHP or ASP on my host and I don't wanna pay around 20 bucks a month to have a host that support it. Well, let me know what you think of it.

Basically, you are using CGI here: be it Perl or simply C++ compiled executables.

If you are good at C/C++, then even that would suffice instead of Perl. Simple compile your executables and put them into your cgi-bin directory.

If you are comfortable with Perl, then its the best in CGI you've got. :)