Cron Jobs
What's a cron job? What ?job? does a cron job usually perform? How do cron jobs make your online experience easier?
Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, which run on regular time intervals set by the end user and they also execute scripts developed in various programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what exactly a cron needs to do, it may run each and every minute, once a week or perhaps once per year. There are lots of practical applications to make use of cron jobs in your everyday administration of a site. For example, a backup of the entire site may be generated once a day or weekly or an email message with all fresh signups for the day can be delivered to a particular email address. These types of automatic options will make the management of every site much easier. There won't be any specific file types that can be allowed / forbidden, so any script can be executed employing a cron job.
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Cron Jobs in Hosting
The simple to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs without any difficulty. If you don't have prior knowledge about these types of things, you will find an incredibly user-friendly interface where one can plan the execution of the cron, picking one or several time frame possibilities - minutes, hours, days, months, or exact weekdays. The one thing that you will have to fill yourself is the specific command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that will be executed. More experienced users can also use the Advanced mode of our instrument and enter by hand the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you need more crons than your
hosting package allows you to have, you'll be able to upgrade this attribute in batches of five with a couple of mouse clicks.