A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a certain action - typically running a script in the web hosting account. The task is planned, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are lots of reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically per week or a backup of the content may be generated in a different folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites as you are able to get a lot of things done automatically and get reports for them, as an alternative to spending valuable time and efforts to complete them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting
Our easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to create cron jobs without any difficulty. If you don't have prior knowledge about such matters, you'll find a very intuitive interface where you could schedule the execution of your cron, picking one or several time frame options - minutes, hours, days, months, or exact weekdays. The one thing that you have to fill in yourself is the precise command to be run, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and also the path to the particular file that will be executed. More capable customers may also make use of the Advanced mode of our tool and enter by hand the execution time with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like more crons than your cloud website hosting package allows you to have, you are able to upgrade this characteristic in batches of five with just a couple of mouse clicks.
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 with us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a new cron job is easy and you will be able to add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to enter two 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 particular script that you'd like the cron job to run. The final step is to determine how often the cron will run and we have a rather user-friendly interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you're able to choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, albeit more sophisticated way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.