A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a certain action - typically executing some script in a hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are lots of good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. As an example, you may get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup of the content can be made in a standalone folder within your hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites since you are able to have numerous things executed automatically and have reports for them, rather than spending valuable time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is provided with all the Linux cloud web hosting services, allows you to set up cron jobs in a couple of simple steps even if you haven't ever used this feature before. After you sign in and navigate to the Cron Jobs section where you are able to create background tasks, you just need to paste the system access path to Perl, Python or PHP according to the script you will run, type the path in your account to the actual script file and then choose how often the cron job has to be executed. For the aforementioned, you can use the basic mode and pick the minutes, hours, days, etcetera using uncomplicated drop-down navigation, or in case you are more experienced, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method that you might have used with other Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You're able to assign as many cron jobs as you need when you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take over a minute to do that. In contrast to various other hosting Control Panels where you should enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to be able to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel comes with a time and effort saving interface where you'll be able to select how often a new cron needs to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to select the hours, minutes, day of the week, etcetera. The only two things that you will have to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that should be executed and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You can copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information area of your hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than a couple of clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.