A cron job is a command, that functions automatically in the background over a predefined period and it runs a script in a web hosting account. There won't be any restrictions regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly your file extension should be. Some examples are supplying an everyday report with all of the end user activity on a specific website, generating a regular backup or deleting the content inside a particular folder. These tasks or almost every other script can be executed on intervals specified by the user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or perhaps annually depending on the exact intent. Using cron jobs to automate different aspects of administrating a site saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you precisely three simple steps if you get a web hosting plan with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the web hosting accounts, has a section dedicated to the crons and once you go there, you need to enter the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then specify how often the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, our company offers two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where one can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with various other website hosting Control Panels in which you are required to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you'd like to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Setting up a brand new cron job is very easy and you can easily add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you will find a box to enter two things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find inside the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you need the cron job to execute. The very last step is to choose how often the cron will be executed and we have a very user-friendly interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you can easily pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more sophisticated way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.