A cron job is a command, which works automatically in the background on a predefined period and it executes a script in a web hosting account. There are no restrictions in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly your file extension will be. Some examples are sending a day-to-day report which contains all of the client activity within a specific site, creating a routine backup or erasing the files within a particular folder. These kinds of tasks or any other script can be run on time intervals picked by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or perhaps annually based on the exact intent. Using cron jobs to improve diverse areas of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

When you get any of our hosting plans, you will be able to create cron jobs with only a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that previously. Hepsia is quite easy to use, so as opposed to writing numbers and asterisks on particular places, which is the typical technique to create a cron job, you can select the days, hours or minutes a script has to be executed using simple drop-down navigation. This is done in your Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method too, when you're experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll need to enter the path to the script that'll be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, but if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can always call your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you'd like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do that. Installing a new cron job is really easy and you're able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to provide 2 things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the particular script that you would like the cron job to execute. The very last step is to determine how often the cron will run and we've got a really user-friendly interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you can choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, though more sophisticated way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.