A cron job is a command, which works automatically in the background over a pre-set period and it runs a script within a website hosting account. There won't be any restrictions in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Examples are supplying a day-to-day report with all the client activity within a specific site, creating a regular backup or erasing the content within a specific folder. These kinds of tasks and / or any other script can be executed on intervals specified by the end user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even every month as well as annually according to the specific goal. Working with cron jobs to automate numerous aspects of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a cron job requires exactly three easy steps if you get a shared website hosting plan from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the website hosting accounts, has a section dedicated to the crons and when you get there, you need to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be run, the command path to the system files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and determine how often the cron job needs to run. For the time interval, we offer two options - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where you can pick the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more advanced one that's used with various other website hosting Control Panels where you should type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline different time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

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 does not take more than a minute to do that. In contrast to various hosting Control Panels where you should type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel includes a user-friendly interface where you'll be able to decide how often a new cron has to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to pick the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The only two things which you will need to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that should be run along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information part of your website hosting Control Panel, which means that it won't take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.