A cron job is a command, which runs conveniently in the background on a pre-set period of time and it executes a script within a hosting account. There are no limitations in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Some examples are supplying a daily report with all the user activity on a specified website, generating a regular backup or deleting the content in a specific folder. These kinds of tasks or some other script can be executed on time intervals specified by the user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or maybe once per year based on the exact goal. Making use of cron jobs to speed up various aspects of managing a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

When you get any of our website hosting plans, you'll be able to set up cron jobs with a couple of mouse clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is really simple to use, so as opposed to entering numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the common method to set up a cron job, you'll be able to pick the days, hours or minutes a given script should be executed using quick drop-down navigation. This is done in the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method too, if you're experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll have to type in the path to the script which will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, yet if you encounter any kind of issues, you can call your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Installing a cron job in our system is very easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to pick the directory path to the script file to be executed plus the command path for the particular language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the latter in the Control Panel, and you can copy and paste it with several clicks. Next, select the time period for your cron via drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you're all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the whole process very easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you do not have prior experience. When you are more tech-savvy, you may also use the conventional cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.