A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a particular action - generally running some script inside a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are various reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For example, you can get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup copy of the content may be created in a separate folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your websites because it is possible to have lots of things executed automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of investing valuable time and efforts to do them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you precisely 3 very simple steps when you get a website hosting package with us. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the hosting accounts, features a section focused on the crons and when you get there, you need to type the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and specify how often the cron job has to run. For that time interval, we offer two choices - a user-friendly one with drop-down navigation where one can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, as well as a more complex one that is used with other web hosting Control Panels in which you have to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define separate time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a cron job in our system is very simple. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you are able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just need to select the directory path to the script file to be executed as well as the command path for the particular language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You are able to find the latter in the Control Panel, and you can copy and paste it with a couple of clicks. Then, choose the time interval for the cron through drop-down menus for the minutes, hours, days or months and you're all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process very simple and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you do not have previous experience. In case you are more tech-savvy, you may also use the conventional cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.