A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a particular action - typically executing a script inside a hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For example, you can get day-to-day reports how many visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup copy of your content may be made in a separate folder within your website hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites as you can get numerous things done automatically and get reports for them, instead of investing precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting
When you get any of our shared website hosting plans, you are able to create cron jobs with only a few clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so rather than typing numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the typical way to assign a cron job, you'll be able to select the days, hours or minutes a script should be executed using simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs part 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'll have to type in the path to the script which will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, but if you encounter any issues, you can always contact your tech support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Installing a cron job in our system is really easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you only have to pick the directory path to the script file to be run as well as the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You are able to find the aforementioned in the Control Panel, and you can copy/paste it with just a few clicks. After that, select the time period for your cron using drop-down menus for the minutes, hours, days or months and you're all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process very easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you don't have previous experience. If you are more experienced, you can also take advantage of the common cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.