A cron job is an automatic task, that executes a certain action - generally executing some script in a web hosting account. The task is planned, so it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you can get day-to-day reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of your content can be generated in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites since you're able to get several things carried out automatically and get reports for them, instead of investing valuable time and efforts to do them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

When you get any of our shared hosting packages, you are able to create cron jobs with only a few clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is quite easy to use, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the typical way to assign a cron job, you can select the days, hours or minutes some script needs to be executed using very simple drop-down menus. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method too, in case you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also need to enter the path to the script that will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The aforementioned can be found in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can always call your support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you are able to install cron jobs for all of them without difficulty. This is done in 3 very easy steps from the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to control the hosting account, so you'll be able to set up a new cron even if you lack prior experience. In the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you will discover 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 - Python, PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. You also need to submit the folder path to the script file that will be executed in the same box and then use our intuitive drop-down menus to choose how often our system will execute the cron. More advanced users, can also use the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions along with the previously mentioned paths.