A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a certain action - usually running some script inside a web hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are various good reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For example, you may get day-to-day reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, some temp folder can be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of the content may be made in a separate folder inside your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites because you're able to have a lot of things carried out automatically and get reports about them, in lieu of spending precious time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

When you get any of our cloud hosting plans, you will be able to create cron jobs with a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that before. Hepsia is really simple to use, so rather than typing numbers and asterisks on particular places, which is the typical method to make a cron job, you'll be able to select the minutes, hours or days a script needs to be run using simple drop-down menus. This is done in your Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, when you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll need to enter the path to the script which will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, still if you encounter any kind of issues, you can get in touch with your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Installing a cron job in our system is very easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you will be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you only need to select the directory path to the script file to be executed along with the command path for the particular language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the aforementioned in the Control Panel, so you can copy and paste it with several clicks. After that, choose the time interval for the cron via drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you're all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process very simple and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you do not have prior experience. When you are more tech-savvy, you can also use the common cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.