A cron job is an automated task, that executes a certain action - usually executing some script in a hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are various good reasons to use a cron job for your sites. As an example, you may get regular reports how many site visitors have signed up on your site, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup copy of the content can be made in a separate folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites since you are able to have many things done automatically and have reports about them, in lieu of spending time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all the cloud hosting, will help you to create cron jobs in a few basic steps even when you have never employed such a feature previously. When you sign in and go to the Cron Jobs section where you'll be able to assign background tasks, you just need to paste the system access path to Perl, PHP or Python depending on the script that you will run, type the path within your account to the specific script file and then select how often your cron job will be carried out. For the latter, you'll be able to use the standard mode and select the minutes, hours, days, etc. via uncomplicated drop-down menus, or maybe if you are more knowledgeable, you can use the advanced mode and specify the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method that you might have used with various other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a cron job in our system is a piece of cake. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just need to choose the directory path to the script file to be run plus the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the latter inside the Control Panel, so you can copy/paste it with just a couple of clicks. Then, choose the time period for the cron via drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process very easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you do not have prior experience. When you are more tech-savvy, you can also use the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.