Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular time intervals pre-set by the user and they execute scripts developed in various programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. In accordance with what actually a cron needs to do, it may run each and every minute, weekly or even once per year. There're plenty of effective applications to use cron jobs in your daily management of a website. For example, a backup of the entire website may be generated every day or perhaps weekly or an e-mail message with all recent signups for the day can be sent to a particular e-mail. Such automatic options will make the administration of every website faster and easier. There are no precise file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be executed by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
When you get any of our cloud hosting plans, you're able to create cron jobs with a couple of mouse clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite simple to use, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the usual method to create a cron job, you will be able to select the minutes, hours or days a script has to be executed using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method too, if you are knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also have to type in the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The aforementioned is available in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, but if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can contact your support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you'd like to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a new cron job is easy and you're able to add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in 2 things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find in the Server Information section (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the particular script that you wish the cron job to execute. The final step is to select how often the cron will run and we've got a rather user-friendly interface for that, which means that by using drop-down navigation you are able to select the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, although more advanced way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.