A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a particular action - usually running a script inside a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are many good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you may get day-to-day reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically per week or a backup copy of the content can be created in a standalone folder within your hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites as it is possible to have numerous things carried out automatically and have reports about them, rather than spending time and efforts to complete them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all our shared website hosting, allows you to create cron jobs in a couple of basic steps even if you have not used such a feature previously. Once you sign in and proceed to the Cron Jobs section where you'll be able to create background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the server access path to Perl, Python or PHP based on the script you'll execute, type the path in your account for the actual script file and then select how often the cron job has to be carried out. For the latter, you can use the standard mode and pick the days, hours, minutes, etc. using straightforward drop-down navigation, or maybe if you are more experienced, you'll be able to use the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method which you may have used with different Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server account with us to host your sites, you are able to create cron jobs for all of them without difficulty. This is done in 3 really easy steps in the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to take care of the website hosting account, so you can create a new cron even if you don't have any previous experience. Within the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you'll find a box where you need to copy and paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Bash, Python, etcetera. You also have to submit the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box and use our intuitive drop-down menus to decide how often our system will execute the cron. More experienced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions in addition to the previously mentioned paths.