A cron job is a command, that runs conveniently in the background on a predefined period of time and it runs a script inside a web hosting account. There are no limits in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it could do, or what exactly your file extension should be. A few examples are supplying a regular report with the end user activity on a given website, creating a regular backup or deleting the content inside a certain folder. These types of tasks and / or almost every other script can be executed on time periods specified by the user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or annually according to the particular purpose. Using cron jobs to automate various areas of managing a site saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

If you get any of our hosting plans, you're able to set up cron jobs with just a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that previously. Hepsia is really intuitive, so rather than typing numbers and asterisks on particular places, which is the usual way to set up a cron job, you will be able to select the days, hours or minutes a given script should be run using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done from your Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method too, in case you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll have to type in the path to the script that'll be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The aforementioned is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, but if you encounter any difficulties, you can always get in touch with your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're able to install as many cron jobs as you need when you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take more than a minute to do that. In contrast to various other hosting Control Panels where you have to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel has a time and effort saving interface where you'll be able to decide how often a cron should run by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, day of the week, etc. The only two things which you will need to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be run plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You will be able to copy the aforementioned from the Server Information area of your website hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.