A cron job is an automatic task, that executes a particular action - generally executing some script in a hosting account. The task is scheduled, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are lots of good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For example, you may get daily reports how many website visitors have registered on your website, some temp folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup copy of your content may be made in a separate folder in your web hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites since it is possible to get several things executed automatically and have reports for them, in lieu of investing valuable time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all the Linux hosting packages, will allow you to set up cron jobs in a couple of simple steps even if you haven't ever used this function previously. When you log in and proceed to the Cron Jobs section where you are able to set background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the system access path to Perl, PHP or Python according to the script you'll run, type the path inside of your account for the specific script file and after that select how often the cron job will be carried out. For the latter, you'll be able to use the basic mode and select the days, hours, minutes, etc. via straightforward drop-down menus, or maybe in case you are more skilled, you can use the advanced mode and specify the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method which you may have employed with various other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a new cron job is really easy and you can add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to type in two things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find in the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the particular script that you wish the cron job to run. The final step is to determine how often the cron will be executed and we've got a rather intuitive interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you can select the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, though more complex way to assign a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.