Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular time intervals set by the user and they execute scripts developed in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and the like. Depending on what exactly a cron needs to do, it can run every single minute, every week or perhaps once a year. There're plenty of effective applications to use cron jobs in the daily management of a site. Such as, a backup of the whole website can be generated daily or once per week or an e-mail with all new signups for the day may be delivered to a certain email. These types of automatic options can make the management of any website much easier. There aren't any precise file types that can be allowed or forbidden, so every script can be executed by using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you exactly three very simple steps when you get a web hosting plan with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all of the website hosting accounts, features a section dedicated to the crons and when you go there, you should type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that set how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we offer two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where you can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, along with a more advanced one that is used with various other website hosting Control Panels where you are expected to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that define separate time periods.