A cron job is a command, that functions conveniently in the background on a pre-set period of time and it also executes a script inside a web hosting account. There won't be any limitations in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it could do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Examples are mailing a day-to-day report which contains all the user activity on a specified website, generating a routine backup or deleting the files inside a certain folder. These types of tasks and / or almost every other script can be executed on time intervals chosen by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or maybe annually based on the particular objective. Using cron jobs to improve different aspects of managing a website saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting

If you get any of our cloud web hosting plans, you'll be able to create cron jobs with just a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite intuitive, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the common way to set up a cron job, you'll be able to pick the days, hours or minutes some script has to be executed using simple drop-down menus. This is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, when you are knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll need to enter the path to the script that'll be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, yet if you encounter any issues, you can always call your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server account with our company to host your websites, you will be able to set up cron jobs for all of them effortlessly. This can be done in 3 simple steps in the Hepsia Control Panel that's used to manage the website hosting account, so you are able to create a new cron even if you lack previous experience. Inside the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you will discover a box where you should copy/paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, and so on. You also need to provide the folder path to the script file that will be executed in the same box and then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to decide how often our system will execute the cron. Advanced users, can also employ the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions in addition to the previously mentioned paths.