Crontab is a utility tool on Unix-like OS that enables you to make a program daemon scheduled to run at a specified interval. For example, to fetch news feed and import them into your own database every hour on the hour or to send pre-written newsletters at a given time everyday.
With DreamHost you can easily add Crontab jobs at their proprietary web panel, but there are 2 tricks.
With PHP, you can specify the version to run the script, PHP4 or PHP5. DreamHost has both popular php versions installed at different locations:
/*PHP4: */
/usr/local/bin/php/*PHP5: */
/usr/local/php5/bin/phpWith any PHP script, you can always achieve the same results with lynx -dump command that accesses and loads the script as any other browsers would do, thus making the server run the script.
Also it’s required to add this line:
#!/usr/local/bin/php -qat the top before <?php declaration if you are configuring crontab in command line mode rather than adding it from the web panel of DreamHost.
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I intend to start a website with a forum (say 100 posts a day.) Is it true that I cant host this on a $8/mo package? Are u using the same one or the dedicated one? Thanks
@VK
I’m hosting over 20 websites with DreamHost on their cheapest package, 1 of them is a forum with over 2,000 registered users and thus far everything’s working perfectly.
They sure can handle a forum of your volume. The payment is refundable so you have nothing to lose. Just give it a try and see for yourself.
hmm..nice information! I’m looking for a good hosting…thanks
I think it can added inside the client web panel .
I’am not a big fan of hosting my cronjobs at Dreamhost it’s too complicated 🙂 ok not really… but there are really good services out there where I can “store” my Crons. But Dreamhost is yet cool very nice host.