Manual-cronjob
How to setup your cronjobs
What is a cronjob?
A cron job is an automated program developed for Unix and Linux systems. It allows the user to execute several commands at a specific time on a precise date. A cron job is an important tool that can be used for anything from running scripts and re-indexing a web page to providing backup for a database.
Why do you need a cronjob?
JAVS use cronjob to schedule the time a video is encoded.
Example1: Every 15 minutes a user upload a video and you set your cron job to check every 10 minutes if there is a video that need to be encoded. If it’s a big video and the progress time takes longer then 15 minuites it will wait with encoding the next file. This will help your server to spread the load of a encoding progress. You can set the number of simultaneously encodes and maybe only encode video at night when there are less users watching your website.
Example2: When you have turned on the option of server 2 server a cronjob checks if it need to download a video file and add it to the encoding queue. You can download a video every 10 minutes and set the maximun download threads at once.
Step 1:
Login to your admin panel at your website and go to Site Settings -> Tab Encoding.
On the tab encoding you see some options like cron password, max encoding, max download, and the cronjob commands.
| Password for cron jobs | You have entered this password in the install script but here can alter it. Don’t forget to change your cronjob as well. |
| Max number of encode progresses | Maximum number of simultaneously video encoding threads |
| Max number of download progresses | Maximum number of simultaneously video downloading threads. (if Server 2Server is diabled this isn’t needed) |
Step 2:
The cronjob command you have to set can be found on the tab Encoding as well.
Cronjob command for encoding <- This is the command to add for the encoding progress.
Cronjob command for downloading S2S <- This is the command to add for the downloading progress of the server 2 server option.
Cronjob Command for Cleaning Database <- This command cleans up the database.
Instead of using php to execute the script we could use curl.
Example:
Cronjob encoding every 15 minutes
Cronjob downloading every 15 minutes
Cronjob cleaning up database every 24 hours.
Step 3:
How to setup cronjob in Cpanel
How to setup cronjob in DirectAdmin
How to setup cronjob in Plesk
How to setup cronjob in Shell Bash
