A cron job is a command, which functions conveniently in the background on a predefined period of time and it also executes a script inside a web hosting account. There aren't any limitations regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it could do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Examples are supplying a daily report with all of the client activity on a specific site, generating a regular backup or deleting the files within a particular folder. These tasks and / or almost every other script can be run on time intervals picked by the end user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or annually depending on the specific intent. Making use of cron jobs to automate numerous aspects of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

When you get any of our shared hosting packages, you'll be able to create cron jobs with a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that previously. Hepsia is very intuitive, so as opposed to entering numbers and asterisks on particular places, which is the usual way to make a cron job, you can pick the days, hours or minutes some script needs to be run using very simple drop-down navigation. This is done from your Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, if you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll need to type in the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The last mentioned is included in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, but if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can contact your support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are able to install as many cron jobs as you need if you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take over one minute to do that. Unlike many other hosting Control Panels where you have to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel has a user-friendly interface where you're able to decide how often a new cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to select the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The only two things that you'll need to enter manually are the folder path to the script file which should be executed and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You'll be able to copy and paste the latter from the Server Information section of your hosting Control Panel, which means that it will not take you more than several clicks to create a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.