A cron job is an automated task, which performs a certain action - usually running a script in a hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are various reasons to use a cron job for your sites. As an example, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup copy of your content can be generated in a standalone folder in your website hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites because you are able to have lots of things done automatically and get reports for them, instead of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
When you get any of our shared web hosting packages, you are able to create cron jobs with a few clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that previously. Hepsia is very intuitive, so as opposed to writing numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the common technique to set up a cron job, you can select the days, hours or minutes a script has to be executed using simple drop-down menus. The latter is done from your Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method too, in case you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also have to enter the path to the script that'll be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, but if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can contact your support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are able to create as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take over one minute to do that. Unlike various other web hosting Control Panels where you need to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel includes an intuitive interface where you'll be able to decide how often a cron should be executed by using simple drop-down menus to pick the hours, minutes, weekdays, etc. The only two things that you will need to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that should be executed and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You can copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information section of your hosting Control Panel, therefore it will not take you more than a couple of clicks to create a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.