Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, which are executed on regular intervals of time pre-set by the user and they execute scripts coded in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Determined by what actually a cron should do, it can run every minute, every week or maybe annually. There're numerous effective applications to employ cron jobs in your everyday administration of a website. For example, a backup of the whole site may be generated daily or maybe weekly or an e-mail with all of the fresh signups for the day can be delivered to a given e-mail address. This kind of automatic options can make the management of every website faster and easier. There aren't any specific file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be run using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you precisely 3 simple steps if you get a cloud web hosting plan through our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the web hosting accounts, has an area centered on the crons and as soon as you get there, you need to enter the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and set how often the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, our company offers two options - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where one can choose the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more complex one that's used with different web hosting Control Panels where you need to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that outline separate periods of time.