A cron job is an automated task, which executes a particular action - usually executing a script inside a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are numerous reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your website, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup copy of the content may be made in a separate folder inside your web hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites because it is possible to have numerous things carried out automatically and get reports about them, rather than spending time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you just 3 simple steps if you get a cloud website hosting plan through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the website hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and once you get there, you should enter the folder path to the script that you'd like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then set how often the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we provide two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where you can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more complex one that's used with many other hosting Control Panels where you are required to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server account with our company to host your websites, you'll be able to create cron jobs for any of them without any difficulty. This can be done in three very simple steps from the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to manage the hosting account, so you're able to create a new cron even when you lack previous experience. Within the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you will find a box where you should copy and paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, etc. You also have to enter the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box and use our user-friendly drop-down menus to select how often our system will run the cron. More advanced users, can also use the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the aforementioned paths.