A cron job is a command, which functions automatically in the background over a predefined period of time and it executes a script in a web hosting account. There are no limitations in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly your file extension should be. Some examples are sending a daily report with all the client activity within a given website, creating a routine backup or erasing the files in a particular folder. These tasks and / or some other script can be executed on time periods picked by the end user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or maybe annually depending on the particular purpose. Working with cron jobs to automate numerous elements of administrating a website saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

If you get any of our website hosting plans, you are able to create cron jobs with only a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is very intuitive, so instead of entering numbers and asterisks on certain positions, which is the typical method to make a cron job, you can select the minutes, hours or days a script should be run using simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, when you are knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to enter the path to the script that will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The last mentioned can be found in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, but if you experience any kind of issues, you can always get in touch with your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Setting up a cron job in our system is very easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you can go to the Cron Jobs section where you only need to pick the directory path to the script file to be executed plus the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You can find the aforementioned in the Control Panel, and you can copy/paste it with a couple of clicks. After that, select the time period for the cron through drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process really easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you do not have previous experience. If you are more tech-savvy, you can also use the conventional cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.