A cron job is an automated task, that performs a specific action - generally executing a script inside a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are lots of good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get regular reports how many visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of the content may be generated in a different folder inside your web hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites since you'll be able to get a lot of things done automatically and get reports for them, as opposed to spending precious time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you simply 3 easy steps when you get a cloud web hosting package with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the web hosting accounts, has an area focused on the crons and when you go there, you have to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then determine how frequently the cron job needs to run. For the time interval, we provide two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where you can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more complex one that's used with other website hosting Control Panels where you need to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that define separate periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You will be able to set up as many cron jobs as you would like 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 other hosting Control Panels where you have to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel features a time and effort saving interface where you will be able to decide how often a cron should run by using simple drop-down menus to pick the hours, minutes, weekdays, etcetera. The only two things which you'll have to type in manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be run plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You'll be able to copy and paste the aforementioned from the Server Information section of your website hosting Control Panel, therefore it won't take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.