A cron job is an automatic task, that executes a specific action - typically running a script inside a web hosting account. The task is scheduled, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are lots of good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you can get regular reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, some temp folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of your content may be generated in a different folder inside your hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites as you are able to get a lot of things executed automatically and have reports for them, as opposed to investing time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

The simple to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs without difficulty. If you don't have previous experience with such matters, you'll find a really easy-to-use interface where one can plan the execution of your cron, selecting one or several time options - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain days of the week. The only thing that you will have to enter yourself is the specific command to be run, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the particular file that is to be executed. Knowledgeable customers can also use the Advanced mode of our tool and enter by hand the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your shared website hosting plan allows you to have, you'll be able to upgrade this attribute in batches of five with just a few clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a brand new cron job is quite simple and you will be able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in two things - the path to the programming language system files which you will find in the Server Information area (Perl, Python, PHP) and the path to the particular script that you wish the cron job to execute. The very last step is to decide how often the cron will run and we've got a very user-friendly interface for that, so by using drop-down navigation you'll be able to choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, although more sophisticated way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.