A cron job is an automated task, which performs a particular action - usually running some script inside a web hosting account. The task is planned, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are numerous reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you can get day-to-day reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, some temp folder may be emptied automatically per week or a backup of your content may be generated in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites since you can get several things executed automatically and get reports for them, instead of spending time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

Our user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs without difficulty. If you don't have previous knowledge of these kinds of matters, you'll find an incredibly easy-to-use interface where you can schedule the execution of the cron, picking one or more time frame possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or particular weekdays. The thing you will have to fill in yourself is the actual command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that will be executed. More experienced customers can also make use of the Advanced mode of our instrument and enter by hand the execution time with numbers and asterisks. If you want additional crons than your hosting plan enables you to have, you are able to upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with just a few clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a cron job in our system is quite easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all 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 executed along with the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You can find the latter inside the Control Panel, thus you can copy and paste it with several clicks. Next, select the time interval for your cron through drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process really simple and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you don't have prior experience. In case you are more tech-savvy, you can also take advantage of the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.