A cron job is an automated task, that executes a particular action - typically executing some script in the website hosting account. The task is pre-set, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are lots of reasons to use a cron job for your websites. As an example, you can get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of the content may be generated in a separate folder inside your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites since it is possible to have several things done automatically and have reports for them, instead of investing valuable time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

If you get any of our shared website hosting plans, you're able to set up cron jobs with a few mouse clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that before. Hepsia is really user-friendly, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the common technique to assign a cron job, you can select the minutes, hours or days some script should be executed using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done in the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method as well, if you are knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll need to enter the path to the script which will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The aforementioned is included in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, yet if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can contact your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You can set up as many cron jobs as you need when you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take more than one minute to do that. Unlike various other web hosting Control Panels where you should enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel includes a user-friendly interface where you are able to select how often a new cron should run by using simple drop-down menus to choose the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The only two things which you'll need to type in manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be executed and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information area of your hosting Control Panel, therefore it won't take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.