A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a certain action - usually running a script in a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, some temp folder may be emptied automatically per week or a backup copy of your content can be made in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites because you can get many things done automatically and have reports for them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
If you get any of our hosting packages, you can set up cron jobs with a couple mouse clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is really easy to use, so instead of typing numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the common technique to set up a cron job, you can pick the minutes, hours or days some script has to be run using very simple drop-down menus. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, in case you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to enter the path to the script that'll be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The aforementioned is available in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any issues, you can always contact your support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Installing a cron job in our system is easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all semi-dedicated server accounts, you are 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 written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You'll be able to find the aforementioned within the Control Panel, and you can copy/paste it with just a few clicks. Then, choose the time period for the cron through drop-down menus for the minutes, hours, days or months and you're all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process really simple and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have prior experience. When you are more experienced, you can also take advantage of the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.