A cron job is an automated task, that executes a certain action - typically running a script inside a hosting account. The task is scheduled, therefore it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous good reasons to use a cron job for your sites. As an example, you can get day-to-day reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically every week or a backup copy of the content can be made in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites as you'll be able to get numerous things done automatically and have reports about them, rather than investing valuable time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

The simple to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs easily. If you do not have prior experience with these types of matters, you'll find a really easy-to-use interface where you could schedule the execution of the cron, selecting one or several time options - months, days, hours, minutes, or exact weekdays. The thing you will have to fill in manually is the specific task to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the actual file that is to be executed. More skillful customers can also take advantage of the Advanced mode of the instrument and enter by hand the execution period with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like additional crons than your web hosting plan allows you to have, you're able to upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with only a couple of mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you use a semi-dedicated server account with us to host your websites, you can set up cron jobs for all of them with ease. This is done in 3 very simple steps from the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to control the hosting account, so you're able to set up a new cron even if you do not have any previous experience. Inside the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you will find a box where you need to copy/paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was written in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, etc. You also need to submit the folder path to the script file that will be executed in the same box and then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to decide how often our system will run the cron. More experienced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the previously mentioned paths.