Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, which are executed on regular time intervals pre-set by the end user and they execute scripts written in various programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. In accordance with what actually a cron should do, it can run every single minute, once a week or perhaps each year. There are a lot of useful applications to employ cron jobs in the day-to-day administration of a website. For instance, a backup of the whole site can be generated every day or perhaps once per week or an email with all recent signups for the day can be sent to a particular e-mail. This kind of automated options will make the management of every site much easier. There are no particular file types that can be allowed or forbidden, so every script can be run by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Website Hosting
Setting up a cron job requires just 3 easy steps when you get a website hosting package from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the website hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and once you go there, you should type the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and after that set how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we offer two choices - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where you can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more complex one that is used with other web hosting Control Panels in which you should type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that define different periods of time.