A cron job is an automated task, which performs a particular action - usually executing a script inside a web hosting account. The task is scheduled, so it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are lots of good reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. As an example, you may get day-to-day reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically every week or a backup of your content may be generated in a different folder within your hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites because you are able to have several things carried out automatically and get reports for them, as opposed to spending time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

The easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs in no time. In case you don't have previous knowledge of these kinds of things, you'll find a very easy-to-use interface where you could plan the execution of your cron, choosing one or more time frame possibilities - minutes, hours, days, months, or certain weekdays. The only thing that you will have to fill in manually is the precise command to be run, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the actual file that is to be executed. Knowledgeable users may also take advantage 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 can upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with only a couple of mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a brand new cron job is really simple and you can easily add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to provide two things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find inside the Server Information area (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the particular script that you'd like the cron job to run. The last step is to select how often the cron will run and we have an extremely time and effort saving interface for that, therefore by using drop-down menus you'll be able to select the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, albeit more sophisticated way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.