A cron job is an automated task, that executes a particular action - usually running some script in a website hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are many good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get regular reports how many website visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of your content can be created in a separate folder inside your website hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the management of your websites because you'll be able to have lots of things done automatically and have reports about them, instead of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is provided with all our cloud website hosting, will help you to create cron jobs in a couple of basic steps even when you have not employed this function previously. Once you log in and visit the Cron Jobs area where you can assign background tasks, you just have to paste the server access path to PHP, Perl or Python according to the script you'll execute, type the path within your account for the specific script file and choose how often the cron job will be carried out. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the standard mode and select the days, hours, minutes, etc. through straightforward drop-down menus, or maybe in case you are more knowledgeable, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method that you may have employed with various Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server account with our company to host your sites, you will be able to install cron jobs for any of them without any difficulty. This is done in three uncomplicated steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to manage the hosting account, so you are able to set up a new cron even when you do not have any prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you will discover a box where you should copy/paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was written in - Python, PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. You also have to provide the folder path to the script file that will be executed in the same box then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to choose how often our system will run the cron. Advanced users, can also use the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the previously mentioned paths.