A cron job is an automated task, which executes a particular action - generally executing some script in the web hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are numerous reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your site, some temp folder may be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of the content may be generated in a different folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites as you'll be able to get lots of things done automatically and get reports for them, instead of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

The easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs with no trouble. If you do not have prior knowledge about such things, you will find an incredibly user-friendly interface where you could schedule the execution of your cron, selecting one or several time frame possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or particular days of the week. The one thing that you have to fill in yourself is the specific task to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the actual file that will be executed. More capable customers may also use the Advanced mode of the tool and enter by hand the execution period with numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your shared hosting plan lets you have, you'll be able to upgrade this attribute in increments of five with only a couple of mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a brand new cron job is very simple and you can easily add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to provide 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you'll find in the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you'd like the cron job to run. The very last step is to select how often the cron will run and we have a rather user-friendly interface for that, therefore by using drop-down menus you'll be able to pick the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, albeit more complex way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.