Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, which run on regular intervals of time set by the end user and they execute scripts developed in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what actually a cron needs to do, it may run each and every minute, weekly or maybe each year. There're lots of practical applications to employ cron jobs in your everyday administration of a website. For instance, a backup copy of the full site can be generated daily or once per week or an e-mail with all of the fresh signups for the day may be delivered to a certain e-mail address. These types of automated options will make the administration of any site much easier. There are no particular file types that are allowed or forbidden, so every script can be executed with a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Web Hosting
If you get any of our web hosting packages, you will be able to create cron jobs with a few clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite easy to use, so instead of typing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the usual method to assign a cron job, you'll be able to select the minutes, hours or days some script has to be executed using very simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done in the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method as well, if you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also need to enter the path to the script that will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, still if you encounter any difficulties, you can always get in touch with your tech support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a brand new cron job is easy and you can add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you will find a box to type in two things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find in the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the particular script that you would like the cron job to run. The last step is to select how often the cron will run and we've got a very user-friendly interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you can easily pick the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, albeit more sophisticated way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.