Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular intervals of time set by the user and they execute scripts coded in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. In accordance with what exactly a cron has to do, it may run each and every minute, every week or maybe each year. There are lots of practical applications to employ cron jobs in the day-to-day management of a website. Such as, a backup of the full site may be generated once per day or perhaps weekly or an e-mail with all of the fresh signups for the day can be delivered to a particular e-mail address. This kind of automatic options will make the administration of any website faster and easier. There won't be any specific file types which are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be executed with a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting
When you get any of our shared website hosting packages, you will be able to set up cron jobs with a couple mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that previously. Hepsia is very user-friendly, so as opposed to entering numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the typical way to make a cron job, you can select the minutes, hours or days a script needs to be executed using very simple drop-down menus. This is done in the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, if you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll have to enter 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 last mentioned can be found in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of issues, you can always get in touch with your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you use a semi-dedicated server account with us to host your sites, you're able to set up cron jobs for all of them effortlessly. This is done in three simple steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to control the web hosting account, so you can set up a new cron even when you don't have any prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you will find a box where you need to copy/paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, etc. You also need to enter the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box and use our user-friendly drop-down menus to decide how often our system will run the cron. More experienced users, can also employ the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions as well as the previously mentioned paths.