A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a particular action - generally running some script in the website hosting account. The task is planned, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are lots of good reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically per week or a backup copy of the content may be generated in a different folder within your web hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the administration of your sites since you are able to have many things completed automatically and get reports for them, instead of spending time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

Our easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs without difficulty. If you don't have previous experience with such things, you'll find a really intuitive interface where you could plan the execution of your cron, choosing one or several time possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or exact days of the week. The only thing that you will have to fill manually is the specific command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the actual file that is to be executed. More skillful users can also use the Advanced mode of our instrument and enter manually the execution time period using numbers and asterisks. If you want additional crons than your cloud hosting package lets you have, you can upgrade this feature in batches of five with just a couple of mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Installing a cron job in our system is a piece of cake. Once you log 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 need to choose the directory path to the script file to be executed plus the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You're able to find the latter within the Control Panel, so you can copy/paste it with just a few clicks. Then, select the time interval for the cron via drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you'll be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process really simple and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you do not have previous experience. In case you are more experienced, you may also take advantage of the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.