A cron job is an automated task, that executes a particular action - generally executing a script in a hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are various reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup copy of the content may be made in a separate folder within your website hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites as you can have many things done automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all our Linux hosting services, will help you to set up cron jobs in a few easy steps even when you have not used this function previously. Once you log in and go to the Cron Jobs area where you're able to set background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the server access path to Perl, Python or PHP with respect to the script that you'll execute, type the path in your account for the specific script file and then choose how often the cron job will be executed. For the aforementioned, you can use the basic mode and select the minutes, hours, days, etcetera using straightforward drop-down options, or maybe in case you are more skilled, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method that you might have employed with various Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Installing a cron job in our system is very simple. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just need to choose the directory path to the script file to be run along with the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the aforementioned in the Control Panel, and you can copy/paste it with a couple of clicks. After that, select the time period for the cron through drop-down menus 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 won't have any problems if you don't have prior experience. If you are more tech-savvy, you may also take advantage of the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.