A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a certain action - typically running a script in the website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are various good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. As an example, you can get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup copy of the content may be generated in a standalone folder in your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites because it is possible to get a lot of things executed automatically and get reports for them, instead of investing valuable time and efforts to do them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

The simple to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs in no time. In case you don't have previous experience with these types of things, you will find an incredibly easy-to-use interface where you can schedule the execution of your cron, choosing one or more time options - minutes, hours, days, months, or exact days of the week. The one thing that you will have to enter manually is the specific command to be executed, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that is to be executed. Knowledgeable users may also make use of the Advanced mode of the tool and enter manually the execution time with numbers and asterisks. If you need additional crons than your shared web hosting plan enables you to have, you'll be able to upgrade this attribute in increments of five with a few clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you wish to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it won't take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a brand new cron job is very easy and you can easily add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to enter 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you'll find inside the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you would like the cron job to run. The last step is to determine how often the cron will run and we've got a really time and effort saving interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can easily select the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, albeit more sophisticated way to assign a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.