A cron job is an automated task, which executes a specific action - generally running some script in a hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are various reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get day-to-day reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder can be emptied automatically each week or a backup copy 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 as you're able to get several things completed automatically and have reports about them, as opposed to spending precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all our shared plans, will allow you to create cron jobs in several simple steps even when you have never used this feature before. Once you sign in and visit the Cron Jobs section where you're able to create background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the system access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl with respect to the script that you'll execute, type the path inside of your account to the specific script file and after that select how often your cron job has to be executed. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the standard mode and select the minutes, hours, days, etc. using straightforward drop-down options, or maybe in case you are more knowledgeable, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method which you might have employed with other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server account with us to host your sites, you'll be able to create cron jobs for all of them without any difficulty. This can be done in 3 very easy steps in the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to manage the hosting account, so you'll be able to set up a new cron even when you don't have any previous experience. Within the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you will find a box where you should copy/paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Python, PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. You also have to enter the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box then use our intuitive drop-down menus to select how often our system will execute the cron. Advanced users, can also employ the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions as well as the previously mentioned paths.