Cron Jobs
What is a cron job? What ?job? does a cron job commonly perform? How can cron jobs make your online experience a lot easier?
Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that are executed on regular time intervals pre-set by the end user and they also execute scripts developed in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and the like. Determined by what exactly a cron needs to do, it can run every single minute, weekly or maybe each year. There're numerous useful applications to use cron jobs in your everyday management of a site. For example, a backup of the whole site can be generated once a day or once a week or an email message with all fresh signups for the day may be sent to a certain e-mail. These types of automatic options will make the management of any website faster and easier. There are no precise file types that can be allowed or forbidden, so any script can be executed with a cron job.
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Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
Setting up a cron job requires precisely 3 easy steps when you acquire a
shared web hosting plan with us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all of the website hosting accounts, has a section focused on the crons and as soon as you go there, you should enter the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then determine how often the cron job has to run. For that time interval, we provide two choices - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where one can pick the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more complex one that is used with various other web hosting Control Panels in which you are required to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define separate time periods.