A cron job is an automated task, that executes a certain action - generally executing a script in a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, therefore it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are lots of reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get regular reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically per week or a backup of your content may be created in a separate folder in your hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the administration of your sites because it is possible to get lots of things executed automatically and get reports about them, in lieu of spending precious time and efforts to complete them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

If you get any of our shared hosting packages, you'll be able to create cron jobs with a couple of mouse clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite intuitive, so instead of typing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the common way to make a cron job, you will be able to pick the days, hours or minutes a script needs to be run using very simple drop-down menus. The latter is done in the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, when you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also need to type in the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned is included in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, still if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can call your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are able to create as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take over one minute to do that. In contrast to various website hosting Control Panels where you need to type commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel comes with a user-friendly interface where you will be able to choose how often a cron has to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, weekdays, etc. The two things that you will have to type in manually are the folder path to the script file which should be run and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy/paste the latter from the Server Information area of your hosting Control Panel, which means that it won't take you more than a few clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.