A cron job is an automated task, which performs a particular action - typically running some script inside a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are numerous reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get day-to-day reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup of your content may be generated in a standalone folder within your hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites since you'll be able to get numerous things executed automatically and have reports for them, in lieu of spending precious time and efforts to do them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting
Our intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs easily. In case you don't have previous knowledge about these kinds of things, you'll find a very user-friendly interface where you can plan the execution of your cron, picking one or more time options - months, days, hours, minutes, or particular weekdays. The only thing you will have to fill yourself is the specific task to be run, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the actual file that will be executed. More knowledgeable customers may also use the Advanced mode of the instrument and type in manually the execution time using numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your cloud web hosting package allows you to have, you'll be able to upgrade this characteristic in batches of five with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you use a semi-dedicated server account from us to host your sites, you will be able to set up cron jobs for any of them without difficulty. This is done in 3 uncomplicated steps from the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to control the hosting account, so you will be able to set up a new cron even if you don't have any prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you will find a box where you should copy/paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, and so on. You also have to enter the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box and then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to decide how often our system will execute the cron. Experienced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions as well as the aforementioned paths.