A cron job is a command, which works conveniently in the background over a pre-set time period and it also executes a script in a website hosting account. There aren't any limits in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Examples are mailing a regular report with all of the end user activity within a specific website, generating a regular backup or deleting the files within a certain folder. These kinds of tasks as well as some other script can be executed on intervals specified by the user - every couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once per month as well as once a year depending on the exact goal. Using cron jobs to improve different areas of managing a website saves a lot of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Website Hosting
Our intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to create cron jobs effortlessly. If you do not have prior knowledge of these kinds of things, you will find a really user-friendly interface where you can plan the execution of your cron, choosing one or several time frame possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain days of the week. The one thing that you have to enter yourself is the actual command to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the actual file that is to be executed. More experienced users can also use the Advanced mode of our instrument and enter manually the execution period using numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your website hosting package lets you have, you'll be able to upgrade this attribute in increments of five with just a few clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it won't take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a new cron job is quite simple and you can add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to enter two different things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find inside the Server Information area (Perl, Python, PHP) along with the path to the script that you wish the cron job to run. The very last step is to select how often the cron will run and we have a really intuitive interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you're able to select the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, though more sophisticated way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.