A cron job is an automated task, which performs a specific action - typically executing some script in a hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are lots of good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get regular reports how many visitors have registered on your website, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup of your content can be created in a different folder in your hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites because you'll be able to have lots of things done automatically and get reports for them, as an alternative to spending valuable time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
Our intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to create cron jobs effortlessly. If you don't have prior experience with these kinds of things, you will find a really easy-to-use interface where you can schedule the execution of the cron, selecting one or more time frame options - minutes, hours, days, months, or certain days of the week. The sole thing that you have to fill in yourself is the specific command to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More skillful users can also use the Advanced mode of our tool and type in manually the execution period using numbers and asterisks. If you want additional crons than your shared hosting package allows you to have, you are able to upgrade this characteristic in batches of five with a couple of mouse clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a new cron job is very easy and you can add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in two different things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find in the Server Information area (PHP, Python, Perl) and the path to the script that you want the cron job to execute. The very last step is to determine how often the cron will be executed and we've got a rather intuitive interface for that, therefore by using drop-down menus you can easily select the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, though more sophisticated way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.