A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a specific action - typically running a script inside a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are various reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically per week or a backup copy of your content can be created in a separate folder in your web hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites as it is possible to have many things executed automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of spending time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all the website hosting packages, allows you to set up cron jobs in several simple steps even when you have never used such a feature before. As soon as you log in and navigate to the Cron Jobs area where you'll be able to set background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the system access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl with respect to the script you'll execute, type the path inside of your account to the specific script file and select how often the cron job will be executed. For the aforementioned, you can use the basic mode and choose the minutes, hours, days, etcetera via simple drop-down menus, or if you are more experienced, you can use the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method which you might have used with different Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it won't take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a brand new cron job is very easy and you are able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to provide 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you wish the cron job to run. The final step is to select how often the cron will run and we've got an extremely time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down navigation you are able to choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, although more advanced way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.