A cron job is an automated task, that executes a specific action - generally executing a script inside a web hosting account. The task is planned, which means that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are many reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get day-to-day reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup of your content can be generated in a standalone folder within your hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites because you'll be able to get many things done automatically and get reports for them, as opposed to spending time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

When you get any of our hosting packages, you are able to create cron jobs with a couple clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the typical way to assign a cron job, you can select the minutes, hours or days a given script has to be executed using quick drop-down navigation. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, if you are skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll need to enter the path to the script that'll be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The latter is available in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, still if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can get in touch with your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a brand new cron job is quite simple and you will be able to add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you can find a box to type in 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find in the Server Information area (PHP, Python, Perl) and the path to the script that you want the cron job to execute. The last step is to determine how often the cron will run and we've got an extremely intuitive interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you'll be able to choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, though more sophisticated way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.