Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, which are executed on regular intervals of time set by the user and they execute scripts coded in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what actually a cron needs to do, it can run each minute, once a week or maybe each year. There're a lot of useful applications to use cron jobs in your daily administration of a site. For instance, a backup of the entire website can be generated once a day or perhaps once per week or an e-mail message with all of the recent signups for the day can be delivered to a specific e-mail. These types of automatic options can make the management of any website much easier. There aren't any precise file types that can be allowed or forbidden, so every script can be run using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
If you get any of our shared web hosting plans, you'll be able to set up cron jobs with a couple of clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that before. Hepsia is very simple to use, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the typical way to make a cron job, you can select the minutes, hours or days a script has to be executed using very simple drop-down navigation. This is done from the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, in case you are knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll need to type in the path to the script which will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The aforementioned is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of issues, you can contact your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you wish to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, it won't take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a new cron job is really simple and you are able to add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you can find a box to enter two things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you want the cron job to run. The final step is to choose how often the cron will be executed and we have a really time and effort saving interface for that, so by using drop-down navigation you are able to pick the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more complex way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.