A cron job is a command, that runs conveniently in the background over a pre-set time period and it executes a script inside a web hosting account. There aren't any limits in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly your file extension will be. Some examples are supplying a day-to-day report with the client activity within a specific website, creating a regular backup or deleting the files in a particular folder. These tasks and / or any other script can be executed on time periods picked by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or maybe once per year according to the particular objective. Making use of cron jobs to improve various aspects of administrating a site saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting

Creating a cron job requires precisely three simple steps when you get a cloud website hosting package through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the web hosting accounts, has an area centered on the crons and when you go there, you have to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the system files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that determine how often the cron job should run. For that time interval, we offer two options - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where one can select the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more advanced one that is used with various other hosting Control Panels in which you have to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define separate time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a new cron job is really easy and you will be able to add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you will find a box to type in 2 things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the script that you'd like the cron job to execute. The last step is to choose how often the cron will be executed and we've got a rather user-friendly interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you can easily choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, though more sophisticated way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.