A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a certain action - usually executing some script inside a web hosting account. The task is planned, which means that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are various good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of your content may be made in a different folder in your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites because you can get many things executed automatically and have reports about them, as opposed to spending time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

The user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs in no time. In case you don't have prior knowledge of such things, you will find a really intuitive interface where one can schedule the execution of your cron, selecting one or several time frame options - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain weekdays. The sole thing that you will have to fill in yourself is the precise task to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the actual file that is to be executed. More experienced users may also take advantage of the Advanced mode of the tool and type in manually the execution period using numbers and asterisks. If you need more crons than your shared hosting plan allows you to have, you can upgrade this feature in batches of five with only a couple of mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Installing a cron job in our system is easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you are able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just need to pick the directory path to the script file to be run and the command path for the particular language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the latter within the Control Panel, thus you can copy and paste it with just a couple of clicks. Next, select the time period for your cron using drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process very easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have prior experience. If you are more tech-savvy, you can also take advantage of the conventional cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.