A cron job is an automated task, which executes a specific action - generally executing a script in the web hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are lots of good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup copy of your content may be created in a separate folder in your web hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites since you're able to have a lot of things completed automatically and get reports for them, as an alternative to investing precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you precisely three quick steps when you get a shared hosting plan with us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the hosting accounts, has a section focused on the crons and as soon as you go there, you have to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and set how frequently the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we provide two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where you can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more complex one that is used with different hosting Control Panels in which you should type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline different time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Installing a cron job in our system is really easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you can go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to pick the directory path to the script file to be executed and the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the aforementioned inside the Control Panel, so you can copy and paste it with just a few clicks. Next, select the time interval for your cron through drop-down navigation for the minutes, hours, days or months and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process very simple and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you don't have previous experience. When you are more experienced, you may also use the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.