Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular time intervals set by the end user and they also execute scripts written in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what exactly a cron should do, it can run every single minute, every week or perhaps annually. There're many practical applications to use cron jobs in your everyday administration of a site. Such as, a backup of the full website may be generated every day or maybe weekly or an e-mail message with all of the recent signups for the day can be sent to a certain email. These types of automated options can make the administration of any website faster and easier. There are no precise file types which are allowed or forbidden, so any script can be executed with a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
Setting up a cron job requires exactly 3 very simple steps when you get a shared hosting plan through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the website hosting accounts, has an area centered on the crons and when you go there, you should enter the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that set how frequently the cron job needs to run. For the time interval, we provide two choices - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where one can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, and a more advanced one that's used with various other hosting Control Panels in which you are expected to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define different periods of time.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Installing a cron job in our system is very easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to select the directory path to the script file to be run along with the command path for the particular language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You're able to find the aforementioned inside the Control Panel, and you can copy and paste it with several clicks. Next, choose the time period for the cron through drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you'll be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process very easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you do not have previous experience. In case you are more tech-savvy, you can also use the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.