A cron job is a command, which works automatically in the background on a pre-set period of time and it also executes a script inside a website hosting account. There are no limitations in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly the file extension should be. Examples are mailing a day-to-day report with all the user activity on a given site, generating a routine backup or deleting the files inside a certain folder. These kinds of tasks or any other script can be run on intervals chosen by the end user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or maybe once a year according to the specific purpose. Using cron jobs to automate diverse aspects of administrating a site saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is provided with all our Linux shared web hosting, will help you to set up cron jobs in a few easy steps even if you have not used such a feature previously. Once you sign in and visit the Cron Jobs section where you're able to set background tasks, you just need to paste the server access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl based on the script that you'll execute, type the path in your account for the specific script file and then select how often your cron job has to be executed. For the latter, you can use the basic mode and pick the minutes, hours, days, etc. through straightforward drop-down menus, or maybe in case you are more skilled, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method which you might have employed with other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are able to create as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take more than one minute to do that. Unlike many other web hosting Control Panels where you have to type commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel includes an intuitive interface where you can decide how often a new cron needs to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to select the hours, minutes, weekdays, etcetera. The two things which you'll need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file which should be executed and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information area of your web hosting Control Panel, therefore it will not take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.