A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a particular action - typically executing a script in the web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are lots of reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get regular reports how many website visitors have registered on your site, a temp folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of your content may be generated in a separate folder in your hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the administration of your sites because you can get numerous things executed automatically and get reports about them, as an alternative to investing precious time and efforts to do them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you simply three easy steps when you acquire a cloud website hosting package from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the hosting accounts, features an area dedicated to the crons and once you get there, you have to enter the folder path to the script that you'd like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and after that specify how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we offer two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down navigation where you can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, as well as a more complex one that is used with various other website hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that outline separate time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you use a semi-dedicated server account with us to host your websites, you will be able to install cron jobs for any of them with ease. This is done in three simple steps in the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to manage the hosting account, so you will be able to create a new cron even when you do not have any previous experience. In the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you will find a box where you should copy and paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, and so on. You also need to provide the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box and then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to select how often our system will execute the cron. Advanced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions along with the aforementioned paths.