A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a certain action - generally executing some script inside a hosting account. The task is pre-set, therefore it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are numerous good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get day-to-day reports how many visitors have registered on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of the content may be generated in a separate folder in your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites as you're able to get many things completed automatically and have reports for them, rather than spending valuable time and efforts to do them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting
If you get any of our shared web hosting plans, you are able to create cron jobs with a few clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is very user-friendly, so as opposed to writing numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the typical method to make a cron job, you will be able to choose the minutes, hours or days some script has to be run using very simple drop-down menus. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method as well, when you are skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also need to enter the path to the script that'll be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned is included in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, but if you experience any difficulties, you can get in touch with your support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You'll be able to install as many cron jobs as you need when you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take over one minute to do that. In contrast to many other website hosting Control Panels where you should type commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel contains an intuitive interface where you will be able to select how often a cron should be executed by using simple drop-down menus to select the minutes, hours, weekdays, etcetera. The only two things which you'll need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file which should be executed plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy the aforementioned from the Server Information area of your hosting Control Panel, therefore it won't take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.