A cron job is an automated task, that executes a certain action - typically running a script in the hosting account. The task is scheduled, therefore it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, some temp folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of your content may be made in a standalone folder in your website hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites because you'll be able to have a lot of things carried out automatically and get reports about them, as an alternative to investing valuable time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you precisely three easy steps when you acquire a cloud hosting plan through our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the hosting accounts, has a section focused on the crons and once you get there, you have to enter the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and after that set how frequently the cron job has to run. For that time interval, our company offers two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where one can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, and a more complex one that's used with different website hosting Control Panels where you are expected to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline separate periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you use a semi-dedicated server account with us to host your websites, you'll be able to install cron jobs for all of them without any difficulty. This can be done in three really easy steps from the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to manage the website hosting account, so you are able to create a new cron even if you do not have any previous experience. Within the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you will find a box where you have to copy/paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was designed in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, etc. You also have to submit the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box and then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to decide how often our system will execute the cron. Advanced users, can also use the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions as well as the aforementioned paths.