A cron job is a command, which functions automatically in the background on a predefined period and it runs a script in a web hosting account. There aren't any limits regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it could do, or what exactly your file extension will be. Examples are supplying a daily report with all of the end user activity on a specified site, generating a regular backup or deleting the files inside a specific folder. These types of tasks and / or any other script can be executed on time periods chosen by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or perhaps once per year depending on the particular goal. Making use of cron jobs to speed up various areas of managing a site saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

When you get any of our cloud hosting packages, you can create cron jobs with just a few clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is very user-friendly, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the usual way to assign a cron job, you'll be able to pick the minutes, hours or days a script needs to be executed using uncomplicated drop-down menus. The latter is done in the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, when you are skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to enter the path to the script that'll be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned can be found in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of issues, you can always get in touch with your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a new cron job is very easy and you can add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to type in two things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find in the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you want the cron job to run. The last step is to choose how often the cron will be executed and we have an extremely intuitive interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, albeit more sophisticated way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.