A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a particular action - usually executing a script in the website hosting account. The task is planned, so that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are numerous good reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you can get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your website, a temp folder can be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of the content can be created in a standalone folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the administration of your sites as you're able to have several things executed automatically and have reports for them, as opposed to investing valuable time and efforts to do them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Website Hosting
The user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs with ease. If you do not have previous experience with these types of things, you will find a really user-friendly interface where you can schedule the execution of the cron, picking one or several time frame options - months, days, hours, minutes, or specific days of the week. The sole thing that you will have to type in manually is the actual task to be executed, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the actual file that will be executed. More experienced users may also use the Advanced mode of the instrument and enter manually the execution period with numbers and asterisks. If you want additional crons than your website hosting plan allows you to have, you'll be able to upgrade this attribute in batches of five with just a couple of mouse clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you're able to create cron jobs for all of them with ease. This can be done in three uncomplicated steps in the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to take care of the hosting account, so you're able to set up a new cron even when you do not have any previous experience. Within the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you'll discover a box where you have to copy/paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, and so on. You also have to enter the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box and use our intuitive drop-down menus to decide how often our system will run the cron. Advanced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions along with the aforementioned paths.