A cron job is a command, which runs conveniently in the background on a pre-set period of time and it executes a script in a hosting account. There won't be any limits in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly your file extension should be. Some examples are mailing a daily report with all the client activity within a specified website, creating a routine backup or erasing the content inside a certain folder. These tasks or some other script can be run on time periods picked by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or maybe once a year based on the specific objective. Working with cron jobs to automate different elements of administrating a site saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you simply three simple steps when you obtain a cloud hosting plan from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the hosting accounts, features an area dedicated to the crons and once you go there, you have to enter the folder path to the script that you would like to be run, the command path to the system files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that set how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we provide two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where you can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more complex one that's used with many other hosting Control Panels where you are required to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline different periods of time.