Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that are executed on regular time intervals pre-set by the user and they execute scripts written in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Determined by what exactly a cron should do, it may run each minute, every week or even each year. There're a lot of effective applications to use cron jobs in the everyday administration of a site. For example, a backup of the full site can be generated daily as well as once a week or an email message with all recent signups for the day may be delivered to a specific email address. This kind of automatic options will make the management of every site much easier. There aren't any specific file types that can be allowed or forbidden, so every script can be run by using a cron job.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, that is provided with all of our Linux shared hosting packages, allows you to create cron jobs in a couple of basic steps even when you have never used this type of option previously. As soon as you log in and go to the Cron Jobs area where you can set background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the system access path to Perl, Python or PHP with respect to the script you'll execute, type the path inside of your account to the specific script file and then select how often your cron job will be executed. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the basic mode and pick the days, hours, minutes, etc. using uncomplicated drop-down menus, or in case you are more knowledgeable, you'll be able to use the advanced mode and specify the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method that you might have employed with different Control Panels.