The Scheduled Task
Manager (available ONLY with our Linux Hosting Packages) in your Control
Panel gives you the ability to schedule a task (cron) for your website to run on
specific days and at specific times. For example, if you want to run a particular script at
midnight on every Sunday, then you can use the Scheduled Task Manager to define
a task for this. It is very easy-to-use, and allows you to add as many such
scheduled tasks as you want.
Adding a Scheduled Task
1. Login to your
Control Panel and search for the domain name for which you have purchased this
hosting package.
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2. In the search
results view, click on the domain name. This will take you to the order details
view.
3. Click on Manage
Web Hosting Service in the lower toolbar.
4. In the Website
Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Scheduled
Task Manager -> Add Scheduled Task.
5. Here, specify the
following details:
- URL to be accessed periodically:
The URL on your website, for the script to be executed
- Minutes/Hours/Days/Months/Days of Week:
The parameters used to define when this task is scheduled to run
- Notify Email Address: Email Address
where notifications related to this scheduled task are to be sent
6. Click on Submit.
Modifying
a Scheduled Task
1. Perform steps 1-3
mentioned in the above process.
2. In the Website
Management interface pop-up that follows, go to Manage Website -> Scheduled
Task Manager -> List Scheduled Tasks.
3. Click on
the Command link to go to the Scheduled Task Details page for that
specific scheduled task.
4. Make modifications
to the desired fields.
5. Click on Modify.
Deleting a Scheduled Task
1. Perform steps 1-2
mentioned in the above (modifying a scheduled task) process.
2. Select the
checkbox adjacent to the scheduled task, which you wish to delete.
3. Click on Delete
button and confirm the action by clicking on OK.
IMPORTANT
In order to complete the action, the Web
Server needs to be restarted. Random restarts affect other services running
on the Server. In order to avoid this, the Server has been scheduled to
restart at intervals of 20 minutes. Hence, each one of the above mentioned
actions might take upto 20 minutes to be effective.
