A cron job is an automated task, that performs a certain action - typically running a script inside a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, therefore it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are various reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get day-to-day reports how many visitors have registered on your website, a temp folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup of your content can be made in a different folder within your website hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites as you are able to have numerous things completed automatically and have reports for them, instead of spending precious time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

If you get any of our cloud hosting packages, you're able to create cron jobs with a couple mouse clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that before. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on certain positions, which is the usual way to assign a cron job, you will be able to choose the minutes, hours or days some script needs to be executed using simple drop-down menus. This is done from the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, in case you are knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll need to enter the path to the script which will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The aforementioned can be found in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, but if you experience any issues, you can always contact your support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can assign as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take more than a minute to do that. In contrast to various other hosting Control Panels where you have to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel contains a time and effort saving interface where you're able to decide how often a cron has to run by using simple drop-down menus to pick the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The two things that you will need to type in manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be executed along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy/paste the latter from the Server Information area of your hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than a few clicks to set up a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.