A cron job is an automated task, that performs a specific action - generally executing some script in a hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are numerous good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. As an example, you may get regular reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of your content can be made in a different folder in your web hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites since it is possible to get a lot of things completed automatically and have reports about them, as an alternative to investing time and efforts to complete them manually.
Cron Jobs in Web Hosting
If you get any of our web hosting plans, you can set up cron jobs with a couple of mouse clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that before. Hepsia is very simple to use, so instead of entering numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the typical method to set up a cron job, you'll be able to select the days, hours or minutes some script needs to be run using very simple drop-down menus. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method too, if you are knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In either case, 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 in your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can always contact your tech support team.
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 won't take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do that. Installing a brand new cron job is very easy and you can add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will 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 last step is to choose how often the cron will run and we've got a rather user-friendly interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you will be able to 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 employing digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.