A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a certain action - typically running a script in the website hosting account. The task is pre-set, therefore it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are lots of reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get daily reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically per week or a backup of the content may be created in a separate folder inside your hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites as you'll be able to have many things done automatically and get reports about them, in lieu of investing valuable time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you precisely 3 very simple steps when you acquire a shared web hosting package with us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all of the web hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and when you get there, you should enter the folder path to the script that you'd like to be run, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and set how frequently the cron job needs to run. For the time interval, we provide two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where one can select the minutes, hours, days or months, along with a more advanced one that is used with many other hosting Control Panels where you are expected to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that outline separate time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a new cron job is quite simple and you will be able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to type in two different things - the path to the programming language system files which you'll find in the Server Information area (Perl, Python, PHP) and the path to the script that you wish the cron job to execute. The final step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we have a very user-friendly interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you will be able to select the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, albeit more sophisticated way to set a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.