A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a certain action - generally running a script in the web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are lots of reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your site, some temp folder can be emptied automatically per week or a backup of the content can be created in a separate folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites because you'll be able to get numerous things executed automatically and get reports about them, instead of spending valuable time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

The simple to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs effortlessly. If you don't have previous experience with these kinds of things, you'll find a really easy-to-use interface where you can plan the execution of your cron, picking one or more time frame options - minutes, hours, days, months, or specific days of the week. The thing you will have to type in manually is the specific command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the particular file that is to be executed. Knowledgeable users can also make use of the Advanced mode of our tool and type in manually the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your shared hosting plan allows you to have, you're able to upgrade this characteristic in batches of five with just a few mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Installing a cron job in our system is quite easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you're able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to pick the directory path to the script file to be executed along with the command path for the particular language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You'll be able to find the aforementioned in the Control Panel, so you can copy and paste it with just a couple of clicks. Next, choose the time period for your cron via drop-down menus for the minutes, hours, days or months and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process really easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have previous experience. In case you are more experienced, you may also take advantage of the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.