A cron job is an automated task, which executes a particular action - typically running a script in the website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are lots of good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For example, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of your content may be generated in a standalone folder in your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your websites as it is possible to get many things completed automatically and have reports about them, as an alternative to spending precious time and efforts to do them manually.
Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting
Our intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs with ease. If you do not have prior knowledge about such matters, you'll find a really easy-to-use interface where you could plan the execution of your cron, picking one or more time possibilities - minutes, hours, days, months, or certain days of the week. The single thing you will have to fill in manually is the precise task to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that will be executed. More experienced customers can also use the Advanced mode of the instrument and enter by hand the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like more crons than your shared website hosting package lets you have, you can upgrade this feature in batches of five with a few clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a cron job in our system is easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you can go to the Cron Jobs section where you only need to pick the directory path to the script file to be run and the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You'll be able to find the latter inside the Control Panel, thus you can copy/paste it with several clicks. Next, select the time interval for the cron via drop-down navigation for the minutes, hours, days or months and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process very easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you don't have previous experience. If you are more tech-savvy, you may also use the common cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.