A cron job is a command, that functions conveniently in the background over a pre-set period and it also runs a script inside a web hosting account. There are no restrictions in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly the file extension should be. Some examples are mailing a day-to-day report with all of the client activity on a given website, generating a routine backup or erasing the files in a specific folder. These tasks as well as some other script can be executed on intervals selected by the end user - every couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or maybe annually according to the specific goal. Using cron jobs to automate diverse areas of administrating a site saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

If you get any of our shared hosting plans, you are able to create cron jobs with a few mouse clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is quite easy to use, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on certain positions, which is the usual way to create a cron job, you will be able to select the days, hours or minutes a given script should be executed using quick drop-down navigation. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, when you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also have to enter the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The latter can be found in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, but if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can contact your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're able to assign as many cron jobs as you need when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it doesn't take more than one minute to do that. In contrast to other website hosting Control Panels where you should type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel includes a time and effort saving interface where you can select how often a cron should run by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, weekdays, etc. The two things which you will have to enter manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be executed plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy the latter from the Server Information section of your website hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than a couple of clicks to create a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.