A cron job is an automatic task, that executes a specific action - generally running some script inside a hosting account. The task is scheduled, therefore it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are many good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. As an example, you may get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically every week or a backup copy of the content can be generated in a standalone folder in your website hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the administration of your sites since you're able to have lots of things carried out automatically and get reports about them, as opposed to investing valuable time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you precisely 3 simple steps if you get a cloud hosting plan with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the web hosting accounts, features a section focused on the crons and as soon as you get there, you need to enter the folder path to the script which you want to be run, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then specify how often the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we provide two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where you can pick the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more advanced one that's used with different hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a cron job in our system is really easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you can go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to select the directory path to the script file to be run 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 latter inside the Control Panel, so you can copy and paste it with just a couple of clicks. After that, select the time interval for the cron using drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process very 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 use the common cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.