Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, which run on regular time intervals set by the end user and they execute scripts developed in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. Depending on what exactly a cron should do, it may run each minute, weekly or perhaps once a year. There are numerous useful applications to employ cron jobs in your day-to-day management of a site. Such as, a backup of the entire site may be generated daily or maybe once per week or an email with all new signups for the day may be sent to a certain e-mail. These types of automated options will make the administration of every site much easier. There won't be any precise file types that can be allowed or forbidden, so every script can be run by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
When you get any of our hosting plans, you'll be able to set up cron jobs with a couple clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that previously. Hepsia is really intuitive, so as opposed to entering numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the usual technique to set up a cron job, you will be able to pick the minutes, hours or days a script should be executed using uncomplicated drop-down navigation. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, if you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also need to enter the path to the script that'll be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, still if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can always call your tech support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a cron job in our system is easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you can go to the Cron Jobs section where you only have to select the directory path to the script file to be run and the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the latter within the Control Panel, so you can copy/paste it with a few clicks. After that, select the time interval for the cron through drop-down menus for the minutes, hours, days or months and you're all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process really simple and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you don't have previous experience. In case you are more experienced, you may also take advantage of the common cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.