A cron job is an automated task, that performs a specific action - usually running some script inside a hosting account. The task is planned, which means that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are lots of good reasons to make use of a cron job for your sites. For example, you can get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of your content can be made in a standalone folder inside your hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites as you can get many things carried out automatically and get reports for them, as opposed to spending time and efforts to do them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which is featured with all our cloud website hosting, will allow you to set up cron jobs in several simple steps even when you have not employed this type of option before. When you log in and go to the Cron Jobs section where you'll be able to set background tasks, you just need to paste the server access path to Perl, PHP or Python based on the script you'll execute, type the path within your account to the actual script file and choose how often your cron job will be executed. For the latter, you can use the standard mode and pick the minutes, hours, days, etc. through simple drop-down navigation, or in case you are more experienced, you'll be able to use the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method which you might have employed with various other Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a cron job in our system is very simple. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you will be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you only need to pick the directory path to the script file to be run as well as the command path for the particular language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You're able to find the latter in the Control Panel, and you can copy and paste it with a few clicks. Next, select the time period for the cron through drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process really easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have prior experience. When you are more tech-savvy, you may also take advantage of the conventional cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.