A cron job is a command, which functions conveniently in the background over a pre-set time period and it executes a script within a website hosting account. There won't be any restrictions regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it could do, or what exactly your file extension will be. Some examples are sending an everyday report with the client activity within a given website, generating a regular backup or erasing the content inside a certain folder. These tasks as well as any other script can be executed on time periods specified by the user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or perhaps annually depending on the particular purpose. Using cron jobs to automate diverse areas of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

When you get any of our hosting packages, you will be able to create cron jobs with only a few clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that before. Hepsia is very intuitive, so instead of entering numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the common way to make a cron job, you will be able to pick the minutes, hours or days some script should be run using very simple drop-down menus. This is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, if you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also need to type in the path to the script that will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The aforementioned is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, yet if you encounter any issues, you can always call your support team.

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 our company and it doesn't take over one minute to do that. In contrast to various other website hosting Control Panels where you need to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel contains an intuitive interface where you will be able to choose how often a new cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to choose the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The only two things that you will need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file that should be executed plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You will be able to copy the latter from the Server Information area of your website hosting Control Panel, therefore it won't take you more than several clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.