A cron job is an automated task, that executes a certain action - typically running a script in a hosting account. The task is planned, so that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are numerous reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get day-to-day reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of your content can be created in a separate folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites because it is possible to get a lot of things completed automatically and get reports for them, as an alternative to investing valuable time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you just three quick steps if you get a cloud hosting plan through our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the website hosting accounts, has a section focused on the crons and when you get there, you have to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and determine how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we offer two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down navigation where you can choose the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with various other website hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define separate time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can install as many cron jobs as you'd like when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it doesn't take more than one minute to do that. Unlike various other web hosting Control Panels where you need to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel includes a user-friendly interface where you are able to select how often a new cron should run by using simple drop-down menus to pick the minutes, hours, day of the week, etc. The two things which you'll have to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be executed and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You will be able to copy the aforementioned from the Server Information section of your website hosting Control Panel, therefore it will not take you more than a few clicks to set up a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.