A cron job is an automated task, which performs a particular action - usually running a script in a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you may get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of the content may be created in a different folder within your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites because it is possible to get several things executed automatically and get reports for them, rather than spending precious time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

Creating a cron job requires simply three simple steps when you obtain a cloud hosting plan through our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the web hosting accounts, features an area focused on the crons and when you get there, you should enter the folder path to the script that you want to be run, the command path to the system files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then determine how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, our company offers two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where one can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with different web hosting Control Panels in which you should type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that define separate time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are able to install as many cron jobs as you'd like when you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take over one minute to do that. Unlike many other web hosting Control Panels where you have to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel comes with a user-friendly interface where you'll be able to choose how often a new cron needs to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to select the hours, minutes, weekdays, etcetera. The only two things which you'll have to type in 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'll be able to copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information section of your website hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.