A cron job is a command, that functions conveniently in the background on a predefined period of time and it executes a script inside a hosting account. There won't be any restrictions in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly the file extension will be. A few examples are supplying a regular report which contains all the client activity on a given site, generating a routine backup or deleting the files in a specific folder. These types of tasks or almost every other script can be executed on time periods chosen by the end user - every couple of minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or once per year according to the specific objective. Making use of cron jobs to automate different elements of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting

Setting up a cron job requires precisely three simple steps if you get a cloud website hosting package with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the web hosting accounts, features a section centered on the crons and as soon as you get there, you have to enter the folder path to the script which you want to be run, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and then determine how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we offer two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where one can choose the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more complex one that is used with various other web hosting Control Panels where you have to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline different periods of time.