A cron job is an automated task, which performs a particular action - generally executing some script in the hosting account. The task is pre-set, therefore it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are lots of reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get regular reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, some temp folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup copy of your content can be created in a standalone folder inside your hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the management of your websites since you're able to get several things executed automatically and get reports about them, as opposed to investing precious time and efforts to do them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all the hosting services, will help you to set up cron jobs in a couple of easy steps even if you have never used such a feature before. As soon as you log in and go to the Cron Jobs section where you'll be able to assign background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the system access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl based on the script that you'll execute, type the path within your account for the actual script file and after that select how often the cron job will be executed. For the latter, you'll be able to use the basic mode and choose the minutes, hours, days, etc. via uncomplicated drop-down options, or if you are more experienced, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method that you might have employed with different Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are able to set up as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take more than one minute to do that. In contrast to other website 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, our Hepsia Control Panel has a user-friendly interface where you can select how often a cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to select 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 along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You'll be able to copy the aforementioned from the Server Information area of your website hosting Control Panel, which means that it won't take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.