A cron job is a command, that runs conveniently in the background over a predefined time period and it executes a script in a website hosting account. There won't be any restrictions regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly your file extension should be. Some examples are supplying a regular report with all the client activity within a specific website, creating a regular backup or deleting the content within a particular folder. These kinds of tasks or almost every other script can be run on intervals selected by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month as well as once a year based on the particular purpose. Making use of cron jobs to speed up diverse elements of managing a site saves lots of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
If you get any of our shared web hosting packages, you'll be able to set up cron jobs with only a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is very easy to use, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the usual method to make a cron job, you will be able to choose the days, hours or minutes a script should be run using very simple drop-down menus. This is done in the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, if you are skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to enter the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The latter is available in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, but if you encounter any kind of issues, you can always call your tech support team.