A cron job is a command, which runs automatically in the background over a predefined period and it executes a script inside a website hosting account. There won't be any restrictions in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly your file extension will be. Some examples are sending a day-to-day report which contains all of the user activity within a given website, creating a routine backup or deleting the content within a certain folder. These types of tasks as well as any other script can be executed on time intervals picked by the user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or maybe once a year based on the specific objective. Using cron jobs to speed up various aspects of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

Creating a cron job requires just three easy steps when you get a shared website hosting plan through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all the hosting accounts, features an area focused on the crons and as soon as 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 particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and specify how frequently the cron job has to run. For that time interval, we provide two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where you can pick the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more advanced one that's used with different website hosting Control Panels in which you have to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that outline different time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you wish to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a brand new cron job is really easy and you can add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to provide two things - the path to the programming language system files which you will find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Python, Perl) and the path to the particular script that you need the cron job to run. The final step is to decide how often the cron will run and we've got a really time and effort saving interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can select the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more advanced way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.