A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a specific action - usually running some script in a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many good reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get regular reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of the content can 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 you can get lots of things completed automatically and have reports for them, as an alternative to spending precious time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

Setting up a cron job requires precisely 3 easy steps when you get a shared hosting plan from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the website hosting accounts, features an area focused on the crons and once you get there, you need to enter the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the system files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and determine how often the cron job should run. For that time interval, we offer two choices - an easy to use one with drop-down menus where one can choose the minutes, hours, days and/or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with different website hosting Control Panels in which you should type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that outline separate periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a cron job in our system is easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you only have to choose the directory path to the script file to be executed and the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the latter within the Control Panel, and you can copy and paste it with a couple of clicks. After that, select the time period for the cron via drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process really easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you do not have prior experience. In case you are more experienced, you can also use the common cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.