A cron job is an automated task, which executes a certain action - usually executing some script inside a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are various good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get regular reports how many website visitors have registered on your website, a temp folder may be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of your content can be generated in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites as you're able to get a lot of things carried out automatically and get reports about them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

Our easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs in no time. If you don't have prior experience with such things, you'll find a very easy-to-use interface where one can schedule the execution of the cron, choosing one or several time options - months, days, hours, minutes, or exact days of the week. The only thing you will have to fill in yourself is the actual command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the actual file that will be executed. Knowledgeable users can also make use of the Advanced mode of our instrument and enter by hand the execution period with numbers and asterisks. If you need additional crons than your cloud hosting plan enables you to have, you're able to upgrade this feature in increments of five with only a couple of mouse clicks.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are able to assign as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it doesn't take over a minute to do that. Unlike other hosting Control Panels where you need to type commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to be able to create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel includes a user-friendly interface where you can select how often a new cron should run by using simple drop-down menus to pick the hours, minutes, weekdays, etcetera. The only two things which you will need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be run and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You can copy the aforementioned from the Server Information section of your website hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than several clicks to create a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.