A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a certain action - typically running a script inside a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, therefore it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are numerous reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you can get regular reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically every week or a backup of your content may be made in a different folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites because you are able to get a lot of things carried out automatically and have reports for them, rather than investing precious time and efforts to complete them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you precisely 3 very simple steps when you obtain a hosting plan from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the website hosting accounts, features an area dedicated to the crons and once you go there, you need to enter the folder path to the script that you'd like to be run, the command path to the server files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that set how often the cron job has to run. For the time interval, our company offers two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where you can select the minutes, hours, days or months, along with a more advanced one that's used with different hosting Control Panels where you need to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline separate time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you use a semi-dedicated server account with our company to host your websites, you're able to install cron jobs for any of them without difficulty. This can be done in three simple steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to manage the web hosting account, so you are able to set up a new cron even when you do not have any previous experience. In the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you will 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 written in - PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, and so on. You also have to submit the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box and use our intuitive drop-down menus to choose how often our system will run the cron. More advanced users, can also use the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the aforementioned paths.