A cron job is an automated task, which performs a certain action - typically executing some script in a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are many good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of the content can be made in a different folder in your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites as it is possible to get lots of things executed automatically and get reports for them, as opposed to investing valuable time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

When you get any of our shared website hosting plans, you are able to set up cron jobs with a couple of clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is quite simple to use, so rather than entering numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the typical technique to assign a cron job, you'll be able to pick the minutes, hours or days some script should be executed using uncomplicated drop-down navigation. This is done from the Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method as well, if you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also need to enter the path to the script that'll be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The aforementioned is available in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of issues, you can always call your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you'd like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a new cron job is quite simple and you're able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in two things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the particular script that you'd like the cron job to run. The final step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we've got an extremely intuitive interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you can pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, albeit more complex way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.