A cron job is an automated task, that executes a specific action - generally running some script in the web hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup copy of the content may be created in a separate folder within your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites since you are able to get several things done automatically and get reports for them, rather than investing precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

When you get any of our cloud hosting packages, you'll be able to set up cron jobs with a couple of clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that previously. Hepsia is very intuitive, so instead of entering numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the common way to create a cron job, you'll be able to choose the minutes, hours or days a given script has to be run using uncomplicated drop-down menus. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method as well, if you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to enter the path to the script that will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The aforementioned is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any issues, you can always contact your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to install as many cron jobs as you need if you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take over one minute to do that. In contrast to various other hosting Control Panels where you should type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel has an intuitive interface where you will be able to choose how often a new cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to choose the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The two things that you will have to enter manually are the folder path to the script file which should be executed along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information area of your hosting Control Panel, which means that it will not take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.