Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular time intervals pre-set by the user and they execute scripts coded in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and the like. Depending on what actually a cron needs to do, it may run each minute, every week or even each year. There are lots of useful applications to make use of cron jobs in the daily management of a website. Such as, a backup of the whole website may be generated daily or maybe weekly or an e-mail with all fresh signups for the day can be sent to a specific e-mail. This kind of automatic options will make the administration of every website much easier. There are no specific file types that can be allowed / forbidden, so every script can be run by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
Creating a cron job requires exactly three easy steps when you acquire a shared web hosting package from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the website hosting accounts, has a section dedicated to the crons and as soon as you get there, you need to enter the folder path to the script that you want to be run, 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 determine how often the cron job should 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, and a more advanced one that's used with various other hosting Control Panels in which you are required to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline different periods of time.