A cron job is a command, which runs automatically in the background over a pre-set period of time and it runs a script within a hosting account. There won't be any restrictions regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it could do, or what exactly your file extension should be. Some examples are supplying a day-to-day report which contains all of the client activity within a given site, creating a regular backup or deleting the content inside a particular folder. These kinds of tasks or almost every other script can be executed on time intervals selected by the user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even monthly as well as annually depending on the particular objective. Working with cron jobs to speed up numerous aspects of managing a website saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

If you get any of our cloud hosting plans, you're able to set up cron jobs with a few mouse clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is very simple to use, so rather than typing numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the common technique to create a cron job, you'll be able to choose the days, hours or minutes some script needs to be run using quick drop-down menus. This is done from your Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method as well, if you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to enter the path to the script that'll be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, yet if you encounter any kind of difficulties, you can get in touch with your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're able to set up as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it doesn't take over a minute to do that. In contrast to other hosting Control Panels where you need to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel contains a time and effort saving interface where you'll be able to select how often a new cron needs to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, day of the week, etcetera. The two things that you'll need to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be run along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You can copy and paste the aforementioned from the Server Information part of your web hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.