Cron Jobs
Get more familiar with Cron Jobs - what exactly are they, what function do they serve and how to assign them.
A cron job is a command, which functions automatically in the background on a predefined period and it also runs a script inside a hosting account. There are no limitations 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 mailing an everyday report which contains all of the client activity on a given website, generating a regular backup or deleting the files inside a specific folder. These tasks and / or almost every other script can be run on time intervals picked by the user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or maybe once per year according to the particular purpose. Working with cron jobs to improve diverse aspects of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.
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Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You're able to install as many cron jobs as you need when you host your websites with a
semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take more than a minute to do that. Unlike various other web hosting Control Panels where you need to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel includes an intuitive interface where you're able to choose how often a new cron should run by using simple drop-down menus to select the minutes, hours, day of the week, etc. The only two things that you will have to submit manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be executed and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy/paste the latter from the Server Information part of your web hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.
