A cron job is an automated task, which performs a specific action - typically running some script in the website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are lots of reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of your content can be made in a standalone folder in your web hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites since you can get many things executed automatically and get reports about them, rather than investing valuable time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

If you get any of our cloud hosting plans, you will be able to set up cron jobs with just a few clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so instead of typing numbers and asterisks on certain positions, which is the common technique to set up a cron job, you'll be able to choose the minutes, hours or days some script should be run using simple drop-down navigation. This is done from the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method too, when you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also need to type in the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The aforementioned is available in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of issues, you can always get in touch with your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Installing a cron job in our system is very easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just need to pick the directory path to the script file to be run and the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You are able to find the latter within the Control Panel, and you can copy/paste it with several clicks. Next, select the time interval for the cron through drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you're all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process very simple and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you do not have prior experience. If you are more tech-savvy, you may also take advantage of the regular cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.