A cron job is a command, which runs conveniently in the background on a pre-set period and it also runs a script within a hosting account. There won't be any limitations regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly the file extension should be. Some examples are supplying an everyday report with all the user activity on a specific site, generating a routine backup or erasing the content in a particular folder. These types of tasks and / or any other script can be run on time intervals picked by the end user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or maybe once a year according to the specific objective. Using cron jobs to automate numerous elements of managing a site saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a cron job requires just 3 easy steps when you get a shared website hosting plan with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the web hosting accounts, features a section dedicated to the crons and when you go there, you need to type the folder path to the script which you want to be run, the command path to the server files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then set how often the cron job should run. For the time interval, we offer two choices - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where you can select the minutes, hours, days or months, along with a more complex one that's used with different web hosting Control Panels where you have to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline separate time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are able to create as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take more than a minute to do that. Unlike various website hosting Control Panels where you should type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel has a time and effort saving interface where you'll be able to decide how often a cron needs to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, day of the week, etc. The two things that you'll need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be run and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy and paste the aforementioned from the Server Information section of your hosting Control Panel, which means that it will not take you more than a couple of clicks to create a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.