A cron job is an automated task, which performs a specific action - generally running some script inside a hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are various good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your site, a temp folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of the content can be generated in a standalone folder within your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites since you're able to have many things done automatically and get reports about them, as opposed to investing valuable time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

When you get any of our shared hosting plans, you are able to set up cron jobs with just a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that previously. Hepsia is really easy to use, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the common technique to create a cron job, you can choose the minutes, hours or days a script has to be executed using simple drop-down menus. This is done from the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method too, if you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to type in the path to the script that'll be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, yet if you encounter any difficulties, you can always call your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you want to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Setting up a brand new cron job is quite simple and you will be able to add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to enter two different things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find inside the Server Information area (Perl, Python, PHP) along with the path to the particular script that you'd like the cron job to run. The last step is to determine how often the cron will be executed and we've got an extremely time and effort saving interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you will be able to choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, although more complex way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.