A cron job is an automated task, that executes a particular action - usually executing a script inside a web hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are many reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get regular reports how many visitors have registered on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of the content may be created in a different folder inside your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites since it is possible to have several things completed automatically and have reports for them, rather than investing precious time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

The intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs without difficulty. In case you don't have previous knowledge of these kinds of matters, you will find a really easy-to-use interface where one can plan the execution of the cron, picking one or more time frame options - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain weekdays. The single thing you will have to fill in manually is the actual task to be executed, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the actual file that is to be executed. More skillful users may also take advantage of the Advanced mode of the tool and type in manually the execution time with numbers and asterisks. If you need more crons than your shared hosting plan allows you to have, you'll be able to upgrade this attribute in increments of five with a couple of clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your websites, you can install cron jobs for any of them without difficulty. This can be done in three very simple steps from the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to take care of the hosting account, so you can set up a new cron even when you lack prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you will find a box where you have to copy/paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, etc. You also have to enter the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to select how often our system will run the cron. More advanced users, can also use the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the previously mentioned paths.