A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a particular action - usually running some script inside a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are numerous good reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, a temp folder may be emptied automatically per week or a backup of your content can be generated in a standalone folder in your hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the administration of your sites since you can have several things completed automatically and get reports about them, instead of spending time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
The user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs in no time. If you do not have previous experience with such things, you'll find an incredibly user-friendly interface where you could plan the execution of the cron, picking one or several time frame options - months, days, hours, minutes, or exact weekdays. The single thing that you have to fill in yourself is the specific task to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the actual file that will be executed. Knowledgeable customers can also use the Advanced mode of the instrument and enter by hand the execution period with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like more crons than your hosting package lets you have, you're able to upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with only a few mouse clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
You will be able to create as many cron jobs as you need if you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take over one minute to do that. In contrast to various other hosting Control Panels where you need to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel features a time and effort saving interface where you'll be able to choose how often a new cron should be executed by using simple drop-down menus to choose the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The two things which you'll have to type in manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be run plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy the latter from the Server Information area of your website hosting Control Panel, which means that it will not take you more than several clicks to create a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.