Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular time intervals set by the end user and they also execute scripts written in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. In accordance with what actually a cron should do, it may run each and every minute, weekly or even annually. There're lots of useful applications to make use of cron jobs in the day-to-day administration of a website. For instance, a backup of the whole website can be generated every day or once per week or an email message with all of the fresh signups for the day can be delivered to a particular email. These types of automated options can make the administration of every site faster and easier. There aren't any specific file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be run employing a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you want to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it won't take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a new cron job is very easy and you can add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you will find inside the Server Information area (PHP, Python, Perl) and the path to the script that you would like the cron job to execute. The final step is to choose how often the cron will be executed and we've got a rather intuitive interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can easily choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, albeit more complex way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.