A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a certain action - usually running a script in a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, therefore it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are many reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get day-to-day reports how many site visitors have registered on your website, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of the content can be generated in a standalone folder inside your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites since you're able to have a lot of things executed automatically and have reports for them, instead of investing time and efforts to complete them manually.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
If you get any of our shared hosting packages, you're able to create cron jobs with only a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that previously. Hepsia is really user-friendly, so as opposed to writing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the common technique to assign a cron job, you will be able to select the days, hours or minutes some script should be executed using simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method too, in case you're experienced enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to enter the path to the script that will 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 experience any issues, you can always get in touch with your tech support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you'd like to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Setting up a new cron job is quite simple and you can easily add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to enter two different things - the path to the programming language system files that you'll find in the Server Information section (Perl, Python, PHP) and the path to the script that you need the cron job to execute. The very last step is to choose how often the cron will be executed and we've got a really time and effort saving interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can easily choose the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more advanced way to assign a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.