A cron job is an automated task, which performs a specific action - usually executing some script inside a web hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are various reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For example, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your website, a temp folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of your content can be generated in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the administration of your sites because you'll be able to get several things completed automatically and get reports about them, rather than spending time and efforts to complete them manually.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
When you get any of our shared web hosting plans, you'll be able to create cron jobs with just a few clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that before. Hepsia is very simple to use, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the typical technique to create a cron job, you will be able to choose the days, hours or minutes a script has to be executed using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method as well, when you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also need to type in the path to the script that will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can always call your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you'll be able to install cron jobs for any of them effortlessly. This is done in three uncomplicated steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to control the web hosting account, so you will be able to create a new cron even when you lack prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you'll find a box where you have to copy and paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was designed in - PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, etcetera. You also have to provide the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box and use our intuitive drop-down menus to select how often our system will execute the cron. Experienced users, can also use the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the aforementioned paths.