A cron job is an automated task, that performs a specific action - generally running some script inside a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, therefore it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are many reasons to use a cron job for your sites. As an example, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, some temp folder may be emptied automatically per week or a backup copy of the content may be generated in a separate folder within your web hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites because you'll be able to have many things executed automatically and get reports for them, rather than spending time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is provided with all of the cloud hosting, allows you to create cron jobs in several easy steps even if you have not used this option before. When you log in and navigate to the Cron Jobs area where you are able to assign background tasks, you just have to paste the system access path to PHP, Perl or Python depending on the script you will execute, type the path inside of your account to the actual script file and then select how often the cron job has to be carried out. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the standard mode and pick the days, hours, minutes, etcetera through uncomplicated drop-down options, or maybe in case you are more knowledgeable, you'll be able to use the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method that you may have used with various other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are able to install as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take more than one minute to do that. Unlike other hosting Control Panels where you need to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel includes a user-friendly interface where you can decide how often a new cron has to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to select the hours, minutes, weekdays, etc. The two things which you will need to enter manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be run plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy and paste the latter from the Server Information part of your website hosting Control Panel, therefore it will not take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.