A cron job is a command, that runs conveniently in the background on a predefined period of time and it runs a script within a website hosting account. There aren't any restrictions regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly the file extension should be. Examples are mailing a daily report which contains all the user activity on a specific site, generating a regular backup or erasing the files in a particular folder. These kinds of tasks as well as some other script can be run on time intervals chosen by the end user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or maybe annually depending on the exact intent. Making use of cron jobs to improve various elements of administrating a website saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

Setting up a cron job requires just three easy steps when you obtain a hosting plan with our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the hosting accounts, has a section focused on the crons and when you get there, you should type the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and specify how frequently the cron job should run. For the time interval, we provide two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where you can pick the minutes, hours, days and/or months, as well as a more advanced one that is used with different web hosting Control Panels where you are required to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to install as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take more than a minute to do that. Unlike various other web hosting Control Panels where you need to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to be able to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel comes with a user-friendly interface where you'll be able to choose how often a cron has to run by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, weekdays, etc. The only two things which you'll need to enter manually are the folder path to the script file that should be run along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You will be able to copy/paste the latter from the Server Information area of your web hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than a few clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.