Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, which run on regular intervals of time pre-set by the user and they execute scripts written in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and the like. Depending on what exactly a cron has to do, it can run each and every minute, weekly or perhaps annually. There're lots of useful applications to employ cron jobs in the daily administration of a website. For example, a backup of the entire site may be generated once per day or once a week or an email with all of the recent signups for the day can be delivered to a given e-mail. This kind of automatic options can make the administration of any site faster and easier. There aren't any precise file types which are allowed or forbidden, so every script can be run by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
When you get any of our cloud hosting packages, you will be able to set up cron jobs with a couple mouse clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is quite simple to use, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the usual way to assign a cron job, you'll be able to select the minutes, hours or days a given script needs to be executed using uncomplicated drop-down menus. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, when you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll need to enter the path to the script that will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The latter is available in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can always contact your support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a cron job in our system is a piece of cake. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you're able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just need to choose the directory path to the script file to be run along with the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You'll be able to find the aforementioned inside the Control Panel, so you can copy and paste it with just a couple of clicks. Next, choose the time period for the cron via drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process very easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you do not have previous experience. In case you are more experienced, you can also use the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.