A cron job is a command, that works conveniently in the background on a pre-set period of time and it executes a script inside a hosting account. There aren't any limits regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly your file extension should be. Examples are sending a daily report with the end user activity on a given website, creating a regular backup or erasing the content within a certain folder. These types of tasks or some other script can be run on time periods selected by the end user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month as well as once a year according to the exact purpose. Using cron jobs to improve numerous aspects of managing a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you simply three simple steps if you get a hosting package from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the website hosting accounts, has an area focused on the crons and when you go there, you need to type the folder path to the script that you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and specify how often the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we provide two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where one can select the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with different web hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Installing a cron job in our system is very simple. Once you sign 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 need to select the directory path to the script file to be run plus the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You are able to find the latter within the Control Panel, so you can copy and paste it with a couple of clicks. Then, choose the time interval for the cron through drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process very easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you don't have prior experience. In case you are more experienced, you can also use the standard cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.