A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a particular action - usually running some script in the hosting account. The task is pre-set, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many good reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get regular reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, some temp folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup of the content may be generated in a standalone folder inside your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the administration of your sites because you'll be able to have numerous things executed automatically and have reports about them, rather than investing time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

Our easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to create cron jobs easily. In case you don't have previous knowledge of these kinds of things, you will find an incredibly user-friendly interface where you can plan the execution of your cron, choosing one or several time frame possibilities - minutes, hours, days, months, or particular days of the week. The one thing that you have to fill in manually is the specific task to be executed, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More skillful customers can also make use of the Advanced mode of our instrument and enter manually the execution time period using numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your shared hosting plan allows you to have, you can upgrade this attribute in increments of five with only a few mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to assign as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it doesn't take over one minute to do that. In contrast to various other website hosting Control Panels where you should type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel comes with an intuitive interface where you'll be able to decide how often a cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to pick the minutes, hours, day of the week, etc. The only two things that you'll have to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that should be run and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You'll be able to copy the aforementioned from the Server Information part of your web hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.