A cron job is an automated task, which executes a particular action - generally running some script in a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are various good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get regular reports how many visitors have registered on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of the content may be generated in a separate folder in your website hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites since you're able to have many things completed automatically and get reports about them, instead of investing precious time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you precisely three easy steps if you get a cloud web hosting plan through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all the hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and when you get there, you have to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be run, the command path to the system files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and specify how often the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we offer two options - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where you can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with different website hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that define different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it won't take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a new cron job is really easy and you are able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to provide 2 things - the path to the programming language system files that you'll find inside the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you want the cron job to execute. The last step is to determine how often the cron will run and we've got a very time and effort saving interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you will be able to choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, though more advanced way to assign a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.