A cron job is an automated task, which performs a specific action - typically running some script in the website 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 reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of the content can be created in a standalone folder in your hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your websites since you'll be able to get several things done automatically and get reports for them, as opposed to spending time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you precisely three easy steps if you get a shared web hosting plan from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the website hosting accounts, features an area dedicated to the crons and when you get there, you should enter the folder path to the script that you'd like to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and set how often the cron job should run. For that time interval, we provide two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where one can choose the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more complex one that is used with many other website hosting Control Panels where you should type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your websites, you'll be able to create cron jobs for any of them with ease. This is done in three very simple steps in the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to manage the website hosting account, so you are able to set up a new cron even when you do not have any previous experience. In the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you will find a box where you need to copy and paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Python, PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. You also have to provide the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box then use our intuitive drop-down menus to select how often our system will run the cron. More experienced users, can also use the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions along with the aforementioned paths.