Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that run on regular time intervals set by the user and they execute scripts developed in various programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and the like. Depending on what exactly a cron should do, it may run every single minute, every week or even each year. There're numerous effective applications to make use of cron jobs in the day-to-day management of a site. For instance, a backup of the entire site can be generated every day as well as once a week or an email with all recent signups for the day may be delivered to a specific email address. Such automatic options can make the management of every site much easier. There won't be any specific file types that can be allowed / forbidden, so every script can be run employing a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Website Hosting
If you get any of our website hosting plans, you'll be able to create cron jobs with just a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite simple to use, so as opposed to writing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the common method to set up a cron job, you will be able to pick the minutes, hours or days a script should be executed using uncomplicated drop-down navigation. The latter is done from your Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, when you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll need to type in the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The aforementioned can be found in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any difficulties, you can contact your tech support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you wish to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a brand new cron job is really easy and you will be able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to enter two different things - the path to the programming language system files which you will find in the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you need the cron job to run. The last step is to decide how often the cron will run and we've got an extremely time and effort saving interface for that, so by using drop-down navigation you'll be able to choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. If 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 option as well.