Cron Jobs
Find out what cron jobs are actually, how they work and how to use them to improve your digital life.
Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, which are executed on regular intervals of time set by the end user and they also execute scripts developed in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what exactly a cron has to do, it can run each and every minute, once a week or even each year. There're plenty of handy applications to make use of cron jobs in your daily management of a site. For example, a backup of the entire website can be generated once per day or perhaps weekly or an e-mail with all of the recent signups for the day may be delivered to a certain e-mail address. This kind of automatic options can make the management of every website faster and easier. There are no particular file types which are allowed or forbidden, so every script can be run employing a cron job.
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Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting
Creating a cron job requires just 3 quick steps when you obtain a
cloud website hosting package from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the website hosting accounts, has an area centered on the crons and once you get there, you need to enter the folder path to the script that you want to be run, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and after that specify how often the cron job should run. For the time interval, we offer two options - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where one can choose the minutes, hours, days or months, and a more complex one that is used with different web hosting Control Panels in which you have to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that outline different time periods.
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Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Installing a cron job in our system is really simple. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all of the
semi-dedicated server accounts, you will be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to pick the directory path to the script file to be executed plus the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You can find the latter in the Control Panel, and you can copy and paste it with just a few clicks. Next, choose the time period for the cron using drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process very easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have prior experience. In case you are more tech-savvy, you can also take advantage of the regular cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.
