A cron job is a command, that functions conveniently in the background over a predefined period and it runs a script in a web hosting account. There aren't any restrictions in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it could do, or what exactly your file extension should be. A few examples are supplying a regular report with all the user activity on a specific website, generating a routine backup or erasing the content in a particular folder. These kinds of tasks and / or any other script can be run on intervals picked by the end user - every couple of minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or perhaps once per year according to the specific intent. Making use of cron jobs to improve various areas of managing a site saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

If you get any of our shared hosting plans, you're able to create cron jobs with just a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that previously. Hepsia is really intuitive, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the common method to set up a cron job, you can pick the minutes, hours or days a given script needs to be run using uncomplicated drop-down navigation. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method as well, when you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also have to enter the path to the script that will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The last mentioned is included in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, still if you encounter any difficulties, you can call your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a new cron job is really easy and you will be able to add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to enter two things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find inside the Server Information area (Perl, Python, PHP) along with the path to the script that you need the cron job to execute. The very last step is to determine how often the cron will run and we've got a rather time and effort saving interface for that, therefore by using drop-down menus you're able to choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, though more advanced way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.