A cron job is an automated task, which executes a certain action - typically running some script in the website hosting account. The task is planned, so that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are numerous reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup of your content can be made in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites since you're able to get lots of things completed automatically and get reports about them, as an alternative to spending precious time and efforts to complete them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Web Hosting
When you get any of our web hosting plans, you're able to create cron jobs with only a few mouse clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is very intuitive, so instead of typing numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the usual technique to create a cron job, you will be able to select the days, hours or minutes a given script should be executed using quick drop-down navigation. The latter is done in the Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method as well, if you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also need to type in the path to the script that will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The last mentioned is included in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any issues, you can contact your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to set up as many cron jobs as you would like if you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take more than a minute to do that. In contrast to many other hosting Control Panels where you should type commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel has a user-friendly interface where you're able to choose how often a new cron should be executed by using simple drop-down menus to select the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The two things which you will have to submit manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be run along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy and paste the latter from the Server Information area of your 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.