Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that run on regular time intervals 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 should do, it may run every single minute, every week or maybe each year. There are plenty of practical applications to make use of cron jobs in your daily management of a site. Such as, a backup copy of the entire website can be generated once a day as well as once per week or an e-mail with all of the new signups for the day may be delivered to a certain email address. This kind of automated options will make the administration of any site faster and easier. There won't be any precise file types that can be allowed / forbidden, so any script can be executed by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all of our hosting, allows you to create cron jobs in several simple steps even when you have never used this type of option previously. When you sign in and go to the Cron Jobs section where you're able to create background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the system access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl depending on the script you'll execute, type the path in your account to the specific script file and after that choose how often the cron job has to be carried out. For the aforementioned, you can use the standard mode and pick the minutes, hours, days, etcetera through straightforward drop-down menus, or in case you are more knowledgeable, you can use the advanced mode and specify the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method that you might have used with various other Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a brand new cron job is easy and you'll be able to add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to type in two things - the path to the programming language system files which you'll find inside the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the particular script that you wish the cron job to run. The final step is to decide how often the cron will be executed and we have a really intuitive interface for that, which means that by using drop-down navigation you can easily pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, though more sophisticated way to set a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.