A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a specific action - generally running a script in a hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get regular reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of the content can be made in a standalone folder in your website hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your websites as you are able to get a lot of things done automatically and have reports for them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

The intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs effortlessly. If you don't have prior knowledge of these types of matters, you'll find an incredibly intuitive interface where you can plan the execution of the cron, choosing one or more time frame options - minutes, hours, days, months, or particular weekdays. The only thing that you will have to fill in manually is the precise command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More capable customers may also take advantage of the Advanced mode of the tool and type in by hand the execution time with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like additional crons than your hosting package enables you to have, you can upgrade this attribute in increments of five with a couple of clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you'll be able to set up cron jobs for any of them effortlessly. This is done in three very easy steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to take care of the website hosting account, so you can create a new cron even when you don't have any previous experience. Within the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you will find a box where you have to copy and paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, etc. You also need to provide the folder path to the script file that will be executed in the same box and then use our intuitive drop-down menus to decide how often our system will run the cron. Advanced users, can also employ the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the aforementioned paths.