A cron job is an automated task, which performs a particular action - typically executing a script in the web hosting account. The task is planned, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are many good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. As an example, you can get day-to-day reports how many visitors have registered on your site, some temp folder can be emptied automatically each week or a backup copy of your content may be generated in a different folder inside your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your websites since you can have numerous things carried out automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of investing precious time and efforts to do them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
Setting up a cron job will take you precisely three quick steps when you get a shared hosting package with us. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the website hosting accounts, has a section focused on the crons and as soon as you go there, you should type the folder path to the script that you would like to be run, the command path to the system files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and then specify how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we provide two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where you can pick the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more complex one that is used with different hosting Control Panels in which you have to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define separate time periods.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a cron job in our system is very easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you are able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to choose the directory path to the script file to be run as well as the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You're able to find the aforementioned within the Control Panel, and you can copy and paste it with just a few clicks. Next, choose the time period for your cron via drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process very simple and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have previous 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.