A cron job is a command, which works automatically in the background on a pre-set period of time and it also executes a script in a web hosting account. There won't be any limitations regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it could do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Some examples are mailing a regular report with all of the user activity on a given website, creating a regular backup or deleting the content within a particular folder. These types of tasks or 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 as well as once per year depending on the particular intent. Working with cron jobs to speed up numerous aspects of administrating a website saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

When you get any of our cloud hosting plans, you'll be able to set up cron jobs with only a few clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that before. Hepsia is quite intuitive, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the common method to make a cron job, you will be able to choose the minutes, hours or days some script needs to be executed using simple drop-down navigation. This is done in the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method as well, if you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also need to enter the path to the script which will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The last mentioned can be found in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of issues, you can contact your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to assign as many cron jobs as you need when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take over one minute to do that. In contrast to other web hosting Control Panels where you need to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel contains an intuitive interface where you are able to select how often a new cron should be executed by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, day of the week, etcetera. The only two things which you will need to enter manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be executed along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy and paste the latter from the Server Information part of your hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.