A cron job is a command, that functions automatically in the background on a predefined period and it also runs a script in a web hosting account. There are no limits regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly your file extension should be. A few examples are mailing a daily report which contains all of the user activity on a specific site, creating a regular backup or erasing the content in a particular folder. These types of tasks or almost every other script can be run on time intervals specified by the user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even every month as well as once per year depending on the exact purpose. Using cron jobs to speed up numerous areas of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Website Hosting
When you get any of our website hosting packages, you are able to set up cron jobs with only a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that before. Hepsia is very intuitive, so instead of entering numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the usual technique to assign a cron job, you will be able to choose the days, hours or minutes some script has to be run using quick drop-down navigation. This is done in the Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method too, when you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also have to type in the path to the script that will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of issues, you can always call your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you'd like to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do that. Creating a new cron job is very easy and you'll be able to add one from the Advanced section 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 inside the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the particular script that you wish the cron job to run. The very last step is to decide how often the cron will be executed and we have a really time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you're able to pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, though more sophisticated way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.