A cron job is a command, that runs automatically in the background on a predefined period of time and it also runs a script within 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. Some examples are supplying a regular report which contains all the end user activity on a specific site, generating a routine backup or erasing the files within a particular folder. These kinds of tasks and / or almost every other script can be run on time periods chosen by the end user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or once a year according to the exact purpose. Working with cron jobs to automate various elements of managing a website saves considerable time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting
Creating a cron job requires just three easy steps when you get a cloud web hosting package with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all the hosting accounts, has a section dedicated to the crons and when you get there, you need to type the folder path to the script that you'd like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then determine how often the cron job needs to run. For the time interval, we provide two choices - a user-friendly one with drop-down navigation where one can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more advanced one that is used with many other web hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define separate time periods.