Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that are executed on regular time intervals pre-set by the end user and they also execute scripts developed in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. Depending on what exactly a cron should do, it can run every single minute, weekly or even once a year. There are numerous effective applications to employ cron jobs in your daily administration of a site. For instance, a backup copy of the full site can be generated once per day or once a week or an email message with all of the fresh signups for the day can be delivered to a specific email. Such automated options can make the management of every website much easier. There won't be any precise file types that are allowed / forbidden, so every script can be run using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
The user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs with ease. If you do not have prior knowledge about these types of matters, you'll find a very easy-to-use interface where you can schedule the execution of the cron, choosing one or more time options - minutes, hours, days, months, or exact weekdays. The only thing that you have to fill manually is the actual task to be run, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that will be executed. More experienced customers may also take advantage of the Advanced mode of our tool and type in manually the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your shared hosting package lets you have, you can upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with only a few clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from us to host your websites, you'll be able to set up cron jobs for all of them effortlessly. This can be done in 3 simple steps in the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to take care of the website hosting account, so you will be able to create a new cron even if you do not have any previous experience. In the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you'll discover a box where you should copy and paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, and so on. You also have to provide the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to choose how often our system will execute the cron. More experienced users, can also use the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions in addition to the aforementioned paths.