Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that are executed on regular intervals of time pre-set by the end user and they execute scripts coded in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what exactly a cron should do, it can run each minute, weekly or even once per year. There are lots of handy applications to use cron jobs in the daily administration of a site. Such as, a backup of the entire site can be generated daily as well as weekly or an email message with all recent signups for the day may be sent to a given email address. Such automatic options can make the management of any site faster and easier. There are no particular file types that are allowed or forbidden, so every script can be run with a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

Creating a cron job requires precisely 3 simple steps when you acquire a website hosting package from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the website hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and once you get there, you need to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and determine how often the cron job should run. For the time interval, we offer two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where one can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more complex one that is used with various other hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline separate periods of time.