A cron job is an automated task, that performs a specific action - typically running some script in a hosting account. The task is pre-set, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are many reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. As an example, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder can be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup copy of the content can be made in a standalone folder inside your hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites since you are able to get several things carried out automatically and get reports for them, rather than spending precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

The easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs without any difficulty. If you do not have previous knowledge about such matters, you will find an incredibly intuitive interface where you can plan the execution of your cron, picking one or several time frame possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain days of the week. The only thing that you will have to type in yourself is the actual task to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that is to be executed. Knowledgeable customers can also make use of the Advanced mode of the tool and type in by hand the execution time using numbers and asterisks. If you need more crons than your shared web hosting plan lets you have, you can upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with just a couple of mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from us to host your sites, you can install cron jobs for any of them without difficulty. This is done in three very simple steps from the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to manage the web hosting account, so you are able to create a new cron even when you do not have any prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you'll find a box where you have to copy/paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - Python, PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. You also need to provide the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box then use our intuitive drop-down menus to choose how often our system will execute the cron. Experienced users, can also employ the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions in addition to the aforementioned paths.