A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a specific action - usually executing a script in a web hosting account. The task is scheduled, so it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup copy of your content may be created in a standalone folder inside your hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites as you are able to have a lot of things completed automatically and get reports about them, as an alternative to investing time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all of the cloud hosting, will help you to set up cron jobs in a couple of easy steps even when you have never used this function before. Once you sign in and go to the Cron Jobs section where you are able to set background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the server access path to PHP, Perl or Python according to the script you'll run, type the path inside of your account to the actual script file and then choose how often your cron job has to be executed. For the latter, you'll be able to use the basic mode and select the days, hours, minutes, etcetera using uncomplicated drop-down options, or maybe if you are more experienced, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method that you may have used with various Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're able to create as many cron jobs as you need if you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take more than one minute to do that. In contrast to various other hosting Control Panels where you should enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel has a user-friendly interface where you are able to decide how often a cron should run by using simple drop-down menus to select the minutes, hours, day of the week, etcetera. The only two things which you will need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file which should be run plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You can copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information part of your web hosting Control Panel, which means that it won't take you more than a couple of clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.