A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a specific action - usually running a script inside a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, therefore it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are numerous reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. As an example, you can get regular reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of your content can be made in a separate folder in your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites because you can have many things completed automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to do them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

Setting up a cron job requires simply 3 simple steps when you obtain a shared web hosting package with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all of the website hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and when you get there, you have to type the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that specify how often the cron job should run. For that time interval, our company offers two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down navigation where one can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more complex one that is used with many other hosting Control Panels where you need to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you wish to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do that. Creating a brand new cron job is really easy and you're able to add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to provide two things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the particular script that you need the cron job to execute. The final step is to decide how often the cron will be executed and we've got an extremely user-friendly interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you can choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, though more advanced way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.