Cron Jobs
Get more familiar with Cron Jobs - what exactly are they, what role do they have and how to create them.
A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a particular action - usually running a script inside a web hosting account. The task is planned, which means that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are various reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup copy of your content may be generated in a separate folder within your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites since you're able to have several things carried out automatically and get reports about them, in lieu of spending time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
Creating a cron job will take you simply 3 simple steps when you acquire a cloud hosting package through our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the hosting accounts, has an area centered on the crons and once you get there, you need to enter the folder path to the script that you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and specify how frequently the cron job has to run. For that time interval, we provide two options - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where you can pick the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more advanced one that is used with various other hosting Control Panels where you need to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline separate periods of time.