A cron job is an automated task, which performs a certain action - usually running some script inside a web hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are lots of reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your site, some temp folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of the content can be created in a standalone folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites because you can get numerous things completed automatically and get reports about them, rather than investing time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all of the Linux web hosting packages, allows you to set up cron jobs in a couple of easy steps even when you have never employed such a feature previously. When you sign in and proceed to the Cron Jobs section where you're able to set background tasks, you just have to paste the system access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl with respect to the script you will execute, type the path inside of your account to the specific script file and after that choose how often the cron job will be executed. For the latter, you'll be able to use the basic mode and choose the minutes, hours, days, etcetera using straightforward drop-down options, or maybe in case you are more skilled, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method which you may have used with various other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can install as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take more than one minute to do that. Unlike various hosting Control Panels where you should type commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to be able to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel has a time and effort saving interface where you're able to decide how often a new cron has to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to select the hours, minutes, weekdays, etc. The two things which you'll need to type in manually are the folder path to the script file which should be executed along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy the aforementioned from the Server Information part of your website hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.