Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, which are executed on regular time intervals set by the end user and they execute scripts developed in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. In accordance with what exactly a cron should do, it can run each minute, once a week or maybe once a year. There are a lot of handy applications to make use of cron jobs in your day-to-day administration of a website. For instance, a backup copy of the entire website may be generated daily or once a week or an email message with all of the recent signups for the day may be delivered to a particular e-mail address. These types of automated options will make the administration of every website faster and easier. There aren't any precise file types that can be allowed or forbidden, so any script can be executed by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
Setting up a cron job will take you exactly 3 quick steps when you get a shared web hosting package from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all of the website hosting accounts, has an area dedicated to the crons and once you get there, you should type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and set how often the cron job has to run. For that time interval, we offer two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where one can choose the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more complex one that's used with different web hosting Control Panels in which you are expected to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline different periods of time.