A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a particular action - generally running a script in a hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are many good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. As an example, you may get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, a temp folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of the content may be generated in a standalone folder within your web hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites because you're able to have lots of things executed automatically and get reports for them, as opposed to spending precious time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all of our cloud web hosting service, will allow you to set up cron jobs in several basic steps even when you have never used this type of function previously. As soon as you sign in and navigate to the Cron Jobs area where you are able to set background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the server access path to Perl, Python or PHP based on the script that you will execute, type the path in your account for the actual script file and then select how often your cron job will be carried out. For the latter, you can use the basic mode and choose the minutes, hours, days, etcetera via simple drop-down menus, or in case you are more knowledgeable, you'll be able to 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 other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you'd like to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Creating a brand new cron job is quite simple and you can add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in two different things - the path to the programming language system files which you'll find in the Server Information area (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the particular script that you would like the cron job to run. The final step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we have a very user-friendly interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you will be able to choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, albeit more complex way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.