A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a specific action - typically executing some script in the web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are lots of reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For example, you may get regular reports how many website visitors have registered on your website, some temp folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of your content can be generated in a different folder within your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites since it is possible to get a lot of things carried out automatically and have reports for them, rather than spending precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

The easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs effortlessly. If you don't have previous knowledge of these kinds of things, you'll find a really intuitive interface where you could plan the execution of your cron, selecting one or more time frame possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain days of the week. The thing that you have to type in manually is the specific task to be executed, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the actual file that is to be executed. More capable customers may also make use of the Advanced mode of the tool and enter by hand the execution period with numbers and asterisks. If you need additional crons than your website hosting package lets you have, you'll be able to upgrade this feature in batches of five with only a couple of mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

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