A cron job is an automatic task, that executes a certain action - typically executing a script in a website hosting account. The task is planned, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are lots of reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get regular reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of your content can be generated in a separate folder inside your web hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites as you can get several things carried out automatically and have reports for them, rather than investing valuable time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all of our Linux cloud web hosting packages, allows you to set up cron jobs in a couple of easy steps even if you have not employed this function before. As soon as you log in and proceed to the Cron Jobs section where you can create background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the server access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl based on the script you'll execute, type the path inside of your account to the actual script file and then choose how often the cron job will be carried out. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the standard mode and choose the days, hours, minutes, etc. through uncomplicated drop-down options, or maybe if you are more experienced, you can use the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method that you might have used with various Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you'd like to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do that. Creating a new cron job is really easy and you are able to add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to provide two different things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find in the Server Information section (Perl, Python, PHP) along with the path to the script that you'd like the cron job to run. The last step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we've got a really user-friendly interface for that, so by using drop-down navigation you can pick the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more complex way to set a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.