A cron job is a command, which functions automatically in the background on a predefined time period and it executes a script inside a hosting account. There are no limitations in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, 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 within a given website, creating a regular backup or erasing the content in a certain folder. These kinds of tasks or any other script can be executed on intervals picked by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or perhaps once per year based on the exact goal. Using cron jobs to speed up various aspects of administrating a website saves lots of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
The easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs with no trouble. If you don't have previous knowledge of these kinds of things, you will find a really intuitive interface where you can plan the execution of the cron, choosing one or several time options - minutes, hours, days, months, or exact days of the week. The single thing that you have to fill in manually is the actual command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the actual file that will be executed. More skillful customers can also take advantage of the Advanced mode of the tool and type in by hand the execution period with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like more crons than your shared web hosting package lets you have, you're able to upgrade this feature in batches of five with only a few clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it will not take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a brand new cron job is really easy and you can add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to enter 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you will find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the script that you'd like the cron job to execute. The final step is to choose how often the cron will run and we've got a rather time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down navigation you will be able to choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, albeit more complex way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.