Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, which are executed on regular intervals of time set by the user and they also execute scripts developed in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. In accordance with what exactly a cron should do, it can run each and every minute, once a week or perhaps annually. There are a lot of practical applications to employ cron jobs in the day-to-day management of a site. For instance, a backup copy of the full site can be generated once a day or perhaps once per week or an e-mail message with all of the recent signups for the day may be sent to a given e-mail. Such automatic options can make the management of every site much easier. There are no precise file types which are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be run employing a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

Creating a cron job requires exactly three quick steps when you acquire a web hosting package from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the hosting accounts, features an area focused on the crons and when you get there, you should enter the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and then specify how often the cron job should run. For that time interval, we provide two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where one can choose the minutes, hours, days or months, and a more complex one that's used with various other hosting Control Panels in which you are required to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define separate periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a cron job in our system is very simple. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you're able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to select the directory path to the script file to be executed along with the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You are able to find the latter in the Control Panel, thus you can copy and paste it with just a few clicks. Then, select the time period for your cron using drop-down menus for the minutes, hours, days or months and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process very easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you do not have prior experience. When you are more tech-savvy, you can also use the common cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.