Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, which run on regular intervals of time pre-set by the end user and they execute scripts coded in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. In accordance with what actually a cron has to do, it may run each minute, weekly or even once a year. There are numerous useful applications to make use of cron jobs in your everyday administration of a website. Such as, a backup copy of the entire site can be generated every day or once a week or an e-mail with all fresh signups for the day may be sent to a particular e-mail. These types of automated options can make the administration of every site much easier. There are no particular file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be executed with a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting

If you get any of our cloud website hosting packages, you're able to create cron jobs with just a few clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that before. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the typical method to assign a cron job, you can pick the minutes, hours or days a given script should be run using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done from your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method too, if you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also have to enter the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The aforementioned is included in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, but if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can always contact your support team.