A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a specific action - typically running a script inside a hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are many reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have registered on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup copy of your content can be generated in a standalone folder within your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites as you can have a lot of things carried out automatically and get reports for them, instead of investing valuable time and efforts to complete them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you just three quick steps when you acquire a website hosting package with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the website hosting accounts, has a section focused on the crons and once you get there, you should enter the folder path to the script which you want to be run, the command path to the system files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that specify how frequently the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we provide two options - an easy to use one with drop-down menus where you can select the minutes, hours, days or months, and a more complex one that's used with different web hosting Control Panels in which you are required to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that define different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your websites, you can install cron jobs for all of them with ease. This is done in 3 uncomplicated steps in the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to take care of the hosting account, so you're able to create a new cron even if you lack previous experience. In the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you will discover a box where you have to copy/paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, etcetera. You also have to submit the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box then use our intuitive drop-down menus to select how often our system will execute the cron. Advanced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions in addition to the aforementioned paths.