A cron job is an automated task, which executes a certain action - typically executing a script inside a hosting account. The task is pre-set, therefore it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are many reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you can get daily reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, a temp folder can be emptied automatically per week or a backup of your content can be made in a separate folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites as you are able to have several things done automatically and get reports for them, as an alternative to spending time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all our Linux hosting service, will allow you to create cron jobs in several basic steps even if you have not employed this type of option previously. After you sign in and visit the Cron Jobs section where you are able to set background tasks, you just have to paste the system access path to Perl, PHP or Python depending on the script that you will run, type the path within your account for the specific script file and then select how often the cron job will be executed. For the aforementioned, you can use the standard mode and select the minutes, hours, days, etc. using simple drop-down options, or if you are more knowledgeable, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method which you might have employed with other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Installing a brand new cron job is very easy and you're able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to provide two things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find in the Server Information area (PHP, Python, Perl) and the path to the script that you wish the cron job to run. The very last step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we've got a very time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you're able to choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, although more advanced way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.