A cron job is an automated task, which performs a particular action - usually running a script in a web hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many good reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get regular reports how many website visitors have registered on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically weekly or a backup copy of the content may be created in a standalone folder in your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites as you're able to have several things carried out automatically and have reports about them, rather than investing precious time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

When you get any of our hosting plans, you will be able to create cron jobs with a few clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is really intuitive, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the common method to set up a cron job, you can choose the minutes, hours or days a script needs to be run using uncomplicated drop-down menus. This is done from the Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, in case you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll need to type in the path to the script that will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, but if you experience any issues, you can always contact your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you can set up cron jobs for all of them effortlessly. This can be done in three simple steps inside the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to control the hosting account, so you can set up a new cron even when you lack prior experience. Inside the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you will find a box where you should copy and paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was designed in - PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, etc. You also need to provide the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box and use our intuitive drop-down menus to choose how often our system will run the cron. Experienced users, can also use the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions in addition to the previously mentioned paths.