Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that run on regular time intervals set by the end user and they also execute scripts coded in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. In accordance with what exactly a cron should do, it can run each and every minute, once a week or perhaps each year. There are plenty of handy applications to use cron jobs in your day-to-day management of a website. For instance, a backup of the whole website may be generated once per day as well as weekly or an email with all of the new signups for the day can be sent to a certain e-mail. Such automated options can make the management of every website faster and easier. There aren't any precise file types that are allowed or forbidden, so any script can be run employing a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all our web hosting plans, will help you to create cron jobs in several simple steps even if you haven't ever used such a option before. After you sign in and navigate to the Cron Jobs section where you are able to set background tasks, you just have to paste the server access path to PHP, Perl or Python based on the script you'll run, type the path in your account to the specific script file and choose how often your cron job has to be executed. For the aforementioned, you can use the standard mode and choose the minutes, hours, days, etc. using simple drop-down menus, or maybe in case you are more knowledgeable, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method which you may have used with different Control Panels.