A cron job is an automatic task, that executes a certain action - usually running some script in the website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are various good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get regular reports how many website visitors have registered on your website, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically weekly or a backup copy of your content can be generated in a separate folder in your web hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites as you'll be able to have several things completed automatically and have reports for them, rather than investing valuable time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

Our simple to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to create cron jobs with no trouble. If you don't have previous knowledge of such things, you'll find a very intuitive interface where one can schedule the execution of your cron, choosing one or more time options - minutes, hours, days, months, or certain days of the week. The only thing that you have to fill manually is the specific command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More skillful customers can also use the Advanced mode of the instrument and enter by hand the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you need more crons than your shared web hosting package allows you to have, you can upgrade this attribute in increments of five with only a few clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you use a semi-dedicated server account from us to host your sites, you are able to create cron jobs for any of them without difficulty. This is done in 3 very easy steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to control the web hosting account, so you can set up a new cron even if you lack prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you'll find a box where you need to copy and paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was written in - Python, PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. You also have to submit the folder path to the script file that will be executed in the same box and use our user-friendly drop-down menus to decide how often our system will run the cron. More advanced users, can also employ the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the aforementioned paths.