A cron job is a command, which runs automatically in the background on a pre-set period of time and it executes a script in a hosting account. There won't be any limits regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly your file extension should be. Examples are sending an everyday report with all of the end user activity on a specified site, creating a regular backup or erasing the content in a certain folder. These types of tasks and / or almost every other script can be run on time periods specified by the user - every couple of minutes, hours or days, and even every month or once per year according to the exact goal. Using cron jobs to improve different elements of managing a website saves considerable time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting
The intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to create cron jobs easily. If you do not have prior knowledge of these types of matters, you will find a really easy-to-use interface where you could plan the execution of your cron, picking one or more time options - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain weekdays. The only thing you will have to enter manually is the specific task to be executed, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that will be executed. More skillful users may also take advantage of the Advanced mode of our instrument and type in manually the execution time with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like more crons than your shared website hosting package lets you have, you'll be able to upgrade this feature in batches of five with only a few clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, it won't take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a new cron job is quite simple and you can add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in 2 things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find inside the Server Information area (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the script that you wish the cron job to execute. The very last step is to decide how often the cron will run and we've got a very user-friendly interface for that, which means that by using drop-down navigation you'll be able to pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, albeit more complex way to set a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.