A cron job is an automated task, which executes a specific action - typically running some script inside a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, therefore it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. As an example, you can get day-to-day reports how many site visitors have signed up on your site, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of your content can be created in a standalone folder inside your hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites since it is possible to have several things executed automatically and have reports for them, as opposed to spending valuable time and efforts to do them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
Setting up a cron job requires simply three quick steps when you obtain a cloud hosting plan from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the web hosting accounts, has an area centered on the crons and as soon as you go there, you should enter the folder path to the script that you would like to be run, the command path to the server files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that specify how frequently the cron job has to run. For that time interval, we provide two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where you can choose the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more complex one that is used with other hosting Control Panels in which you have to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline separate periods of time.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you wish to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do that. Installing a new cron job is easy and you can easily add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you can find a box to provide two different things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find in the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the script that you need the cron job to run. The last step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we've got an extremely time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you can easily select the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, though more advanced way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.