Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that run on regular time intervals pre-set by the user and they also execute scripts coded in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and the like. In accordance with what exactly a cron has to do, it may run every single minute, once a week or maybe each year. There're a lot of practical applications to use cron jobs in your everyday management of a website. Such as, a backup of the entire website can be generated every day or perhaps weekly or an e-mail message with all new signups for the day can be sent to a specific e-mail address. Such automatic options will make the management of every site faster and easier. There aren't any specific file types which are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be executed employing a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

If you get any of our shared hosting packages, you are able to set up cron jobs with a few mouse clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that previously. Hepsia is quite easy to use, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the common way to set up a cron job, you'll be able to select the minutes, hours or days some script needs to be run using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method as well, if you are knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll need to type in the path to the script that will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned can be found in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, but if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can contact your tech support team.