Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, which are executed on regular intervals of time set by the end user and they also execute scripts written in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and the like. Determined by what exactly a cron should do, it may run each and every minute, every week or perhaps once a year. There are numerous handy applications to use cron jobs in your daily management of a website. For example, a backup of the entire site may be generated once per day or maybe once per week or an email message with all of the new signups for the day can be delivered to a specific e-mail. These types of automated options can make the administration of every website faster and easier. There aren't any particular file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be run by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
Our user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs without difficulty. In case you don't have previous knowledge about these types of things, you'll find an incredibly intuitive interface where one can plan the execution of your cron, picking one or several time possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain weekdays. The one thing that you will have to type in yourself is the specific task to be run, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the actual file that will be executed. More skillful customers can also make use of the Advanced mode of the instrument and enter by hand the execution period using numbers and asterisks. If you need more crons than your shared hosting plan lets you have, you can upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with only a few mouse clicks.