Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that are executed on regular time intervals set by the end user and they execute scripts developed in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. Determined by what exactly a cron needs to do, it may run every single minute, every week or perhaps each year. There are plenty of practical applications to make use of cron jobs in the day-to-day management of a website. For example, a backup copy of the full website may be generated once per day or perhaps once per week or an email with all fresh signups for the day may be delivered to a particular e-mail address. These types of automatic options can make the administration of any site much easier. There won't be any specific file types that are allowed / forbidden, so every script can be executed employing a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
Setting up a cron job requires just three easy steps if you get a shared hosting package from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and as soon as you go there, you need to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be run, the command path to the server files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and determine how often the cron job should run. For that time interval, we provide two choices - an easy to use one with drop-down menus where one can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, along with a more advanced one that is used with different web hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define separate periods of time.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Installing a cron job in our system is a breeze. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you only have to pick the directory path to the script file to be executed along with the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You can find the aforementioned within the Control Panel, and you can copy and paste it with several clicks. After that, select the time interval for the cron via drop-down menus for the minutes, hours, days or months and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process very simple and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you do not have previous experience. When you are more experienced, you can also use the regular cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.