Peter
02-04-2005, 02:17 PM
Just a reminder to new and existing hosting customers that we do provide CRON (scheduled execution) of scripts services.
The cron daemon is a long running process that executes commands at specific dates and times. If your application(s) require the use of a cronjob, please feel free to let us know and an ILance technical support agent will work with you via Trouble ticket to create your scheduled task(s).
For customers that do not fully understand the use of a cronjob, take the following scenerio as per example:
At present, when you backup your website this is currently a 'manual' process that requires the customer to log-in to their web hosting control panel and click the 'backup' button, select files to backup, etc. If you decided to make this a more automated process, you could do something like have the cronjob run at a scheduled time (example: 3AM every night) that will:
Backup your website files into an archive (ie: .tar, .zip, etc)
Backup your mysql database
Automate the download to a remote file server (FTP, SSH, etc)
Verify the download (before removal from the source location)
Remove the backup archive from the source location
Send email to notify of a successful backup
Please keep in mind that you should already have a functioning script to automate your desired processes, ILance simply provides the scheduled event cronjob system to execute your script(s) at specific intervals.
Peter
The cron daemon is a long running process that executes commands at specific dates and times. If your application(s) require the use of a cronjob, please feel free to let us know and an ILance technical support agent will work with you via Trouble ticket to create your scheduled task(s).
For customers that do not fully understand the use of a cronjob, take the following scenerio as per example:
At present, when you backup your website this is currently a 'manual' process that requires the customer to log-in to their web hosting control panel and click the 'backup' button, select files to backup, etc. If you decided to make this a more automated process, you could do something like have the cronjob run at a scheduled time (example: 3AM every night) that will:
Backup your website files into an archive (ie: .tar, .zip, etc)
Backup your mysql database
Automate the download to a remote file server (FTP, SSH, etc)
Verify the download (before removal from the source location)
Remove the backup archive from the source location
Send email to notify of a successful backup
Please keep in mind that you should already have a functioning script to automate your desired processes, ILance simply provides the scheduled event cronjob system to execute your script(s) at specific intervals.
Peter