In dedicated server
hosting your backups, updates, security mechanisms and other tasks are all self-
managed. Although these daily tasks do not take much time but still repetitive
nature of these tasks and manual involvement of yours, consume that precious
time which you can spend on other tedious tasks.
So in order to meet
business challenges and face competition, you need to cut down this time to few
minutes. How? By automating or scheduling important tasks.
Why automate server tasks?
- To manage time and resources better and in an efficient manner.
- To minimize routine manual work which you have to perform.
- To concentrate on other dynamic tasks.
- To stimulate server functionality.
- Need to perform specific tasks like updates or maintenance even during non-business hours.
What are cron jobs?
It
is a time-based task scheduler for Linux based systems, which helps you to
execute recurring tasks, automatically on specified time interval -day, month and
week.
But remember, cron executes the scheduled task,
only when the system is on.
Benefits of cron jobs:
Learn few
advantages of cron in dedicated server-
1. Automate routine backups by using cron jobs and make
your life easy and worry less as you do not have to remember to run a backup
script at certain time.
2.
Similarly,
you can schedule system updates by
installing cron and running specified commands.
3.
Schedule
routine rebooting of the dedicated server
at specific intervals.
4. Perform malware and virus scans by scheduling a cron job daily and get
alerts against malicious programs.
5. Schedule emails/newsletters for your clients and send them regularly.
6.
Execute PHP scripts which you want to run on a scheduled basis
7. Deactivate/delete accounts on
your membership site that have passed their expiration dates.
8. Expire and erase cached data
files in a certain interval.
9. Auto-check your website content
for broken links and have a report e-mailed to yourself regularly.
If you have any doubt regarding
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