A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a specific action - typically running some script in the website hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are numerous good reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of your content can be created in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites since you can have many things carried out automatically and get reports about them, rather than investing valuable time and efforts to complete them manually.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, that is provided with all of our cloud hosting, allows you to create cron jobs in a few basic steps even when you have not employed this function before. When you log in and proceed to the Cron Jobs section where you are able to create background tasks, you just need to paste the server access path to Perl, Python or PHP depending on the script that you will execute, type the path inside of your account to the actual script file and after that choose how often the cron job will be carried out. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the standard mode and choose the minutes, hours, days, etcetera using straightforward drop-down navigation, or maybe in case you are more skilled, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method which you might have employed with various other Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a brand new cron job is easy and you will be able to add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you can find a box to provide two things - the path to the programming language system files that you'll find inside the Server Information area (Perl, Python, PHP) along with the path to the particular script that you need the cron job to execute. The very last step is to decide how often the cron will be executed and we've got a very user-friendly interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can easily choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, albeit more complex way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.