A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a certain action - generally executing a script in the web hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are various reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you can get day-to-day reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of the content can be created in a standalone folder in your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites since you'll be able to get a lot of things completed automatically and have reports about them, as opposed to spending precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of our Linux hosting services, will help you to set up cron jobs in a few basic steps even if you have never used this type of option before. Once you log in and proceed to the Cron Jobs section where you can assign background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the server access path to Perl, Python or PHP according to the script that you'll run, type the path within your account to the specific script file and select how often the cron job has to be carried out. For the latter, you'll be able to use the standard mode and select the days, hours, minutes, etc. through straightforward drop-down options, or if you are more experienced, you can use the advanced mode and specify the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method which you might have used with various Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Installing a new cron job is very simple and you're able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to enter 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 wish the cron job to run. The last step is to decide how often the cron will run and we've got a really time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down navigation you'll be able to pick the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more complex way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.