A cron job is an automated task, that performs a specific action - typically executing a script inside a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are many reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you can get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have registered on your website, a temp folder can be emptied automatically every week or a backup of the content can be created in a different folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites since you're able to have numerous things executed automatically and have reports for them, as an alternative to spending valuable time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

If you get any of our hosting plans, you're able to create cron jobs with only a few clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite simple to use, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on particular places, which is the common technique to create a cron job, you will be able to select the days, hours or minutes a given script needs to be executed using uncomplicated drop-down navigation. The latter is done in the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, when you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll need to type in 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 last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of issues, you can always get in touch with your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Installing a cron job in our system is very easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you are able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to choose the directory path to the script file to be run as well as the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the latter in the Control Panel, and you can copy/paste it with a few clicks. Then, select the time period for your cron through drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you'll be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process very easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you don't have previous experience. If you are more experienced, you may also take advantage of the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.