A cron job is a command, that runs conveniently in the background on a predefined period of time and it runs a script within a web hosting account. There won't be any limitations in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Examples are mailing a regular report which contains all of the end user activity on a specific website, creating a routine backup or erasing the content within a certain folder. These kinds of tasks and / or any other script can be run on time periods selected by the user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even every month or once a year based on the particular goal. Making use of cron jobs to improve diverse aspects of administrating a website saves lots of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Web Hosting
Setting up a cron job will take you precisely 3 simple steps when you acquire a web hosting plan from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the website hosting accounts, has an area centered on the crons and once you get there, you need to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be run, the command path to the server files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and then set 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 pick the minutes, hours, days or months, along with a more complex one that's used with other hosting Control Panels where you need to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define different periods of time.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You're able to install as many cron jobs as you need if you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take more than a minute to do that. Unlike other hosting Control Panels where you have to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel features a user-friendly interface where you are able to decide how often a cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to choose the minutes, hours, day of the week, etcetera. The only two things which you will have to enter manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be run and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You'll be able to copy/paste the latter from the Server Information part of your web hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.