Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that run on regular intervals of time pre-set by the user and they also execute scripts developed in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. Depending on what exactly a cron should do, it can run every single minute, once a week or maybe annually. There are numerous practical applications to make use of cron jobs in the everyday administration of a site. Such as, a backup of the entire website may be generated daily or perhaps once per week or an email with all fresh signups for the day can be sent to a particular email. This kind of automated options will make the management of every site much easier. There are no specific file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be run with a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting
Setting up a cron job will take you just three easy steps if you get a cloud web hosting package through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the hosting accounts, features an area dedicated to the crons and when you get there, you have to type the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and then specify how often the cron job has to run. For that time interval, our company offers two options - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where you can select the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more complex one that's used with various other website hosting Control Panels where you have to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define different time periods.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Setting up a brand new cron job is very simple and you can easily add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to type in two different things - the path to the programming language system files that you'll find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the script that you would like the cron job to run. The last step is to decide how often the cron will be executed and we have an extremely time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you're able to pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more advanced way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.
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