Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that are executed on regular time intervals set by the user and they execute scripts coded in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and the like. Determined by what exactly a cron should do, it may run each minute, weekly or even once per year. There are plenty of effective applications to employ cron jobs in your day-to-day management of a site. For example, a backup of the entire site can be generated once a day as well as weekly or an email with all of the recent signups for the day may be sent to a particular email address. Such automated options will make the administration of every website much easier. There are no particular file types that are allowed or forbidden, so every script can be executed employing a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all our cloud plans, will help you to set up cron jobs in a couple of basic steps even when you have not used this type of feature previously. When you log in and navigate to the Cron Jobs section where you can set background tasks, you just need to paste the server access path to Perl, PHP or Python based on the script that you'll run, type the path in your account to the specific script file and select how often the cron job will be carried out. For the aforementioned, you can use the standard mode and pick the days, hours, minutes, etcetera using simple drop-down navigation, or if you are more knowledgeable, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method which you may have employed with different Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Installing a cron job in our system is a breeze. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you are able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you only need to pick the directory path to the script file to be executed as well as the command path for the particular language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the latter in the Control Panel, thus you can copy and paste it with a couple of clicks. After that, choose the time interval for your cron using drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you're all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process very simple and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you do not have previous experience. In case you are more experienced, you may also use the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.