Cron job are getting more common and allow you to perform some really useful scheduling task. Hostgator shared hosting come with cron job feature, and you can add cron job through your cpanel control panel.
“Crontab is a process in Unix systems that uses a Daemon called cron to execute commands for the user at a certain time.”
“It allows you to run commands at any time you specify. Enter the command you would like to run as well as running times.”
After reading above explaination for hostgator cron job, guess you get the idea that cron jobs is like scheduling task in windows system.
From cpanel, you can schedule the task to run every minute, hours, day, or month.
If you have a script that send out email to customer every monday, you can set the cron job to execute the script on every monday, and thus process the mailing list and sending out email to your customer.
Go to Hostgator.com
 |
Leave a Reply
10 Most Recent Posting
- Hostgator Coupon 20% off this March 2010
- Hostgator on Twitter… with support
- Website not appear in search engines?
- Paypal stop payment to India?
- Hostgator donate $100,000 for Haiti Relief
- Twitter for your online viral marketing
- Web hosting upgrade with free website transfer
- Make your website compatible in all web browser
- Considering AJAX for your website?
- Switch from dedicated server to vps hosting
