A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a certain action - typically executing some script in the website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are many good reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get regular reports how many website visitors have signed up 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 separate folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites as it is possible to get several things carried out automatically and have reports about them, rather than spending precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Web Hosting
Setting up a cron job will take you just 3 very simple steps when you get a web hosting package through our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the hosting accounts, features a section dedicated to the crons and when you go there, you have to type the folder path to the script which you want to be run, 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 after that determine how often the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we offer two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where you can pick the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more complex one that is used with many other web hosting Control Panels where you have to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline different time periods.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a cron job in our system is quite easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you only have to pick the directory path to the script file to be run plus the command path for the particular language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You are able to find the aforementioned in the Control Panel, thus you can copy and paste it with a couple of clicks. After that, select the time interval for the cron through drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process really easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have prior experience. When you are more tech-savvy, you can also take advantage of the regular cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.