A cron job is a command, that runs conveniently in the background over a predefined time period and it executes a script in a web hosting account. There aren't any limitations regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it could do, or what exactly your file extension will be. A few examples are supplying a day-to-day report which contains all of the client activity on a given site, generating a routine backup or erasing the content inside a particular folder. These kinds of tasks and / or almost every other script can be executed on intervals specified by the end user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even every month or maybe once a year according to the exact goal. Making use of cron jobs to improve diverse elements of administrating a site saves a lot of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting
Creating a cron job requires just three very simple steps when you obtain a shared website hosting plan through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the website hosting accounts, features a section focused on the crons and as soon as you get there, you should type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then set how often the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we provide two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where one can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with other web hosting Control Panels where you need to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define different periods of time.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you wish to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Creating a brand new cron job is quite simple and you will be able to add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you can find a box to type in 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find in the Server Information section (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the script that you would like the cron job to run. The last step is to choose how often the cron will run and we've got a very time and effort saving interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you will be able to pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, although more complex way to set a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.