A cron job is a command, that works conveniently in the background on a predefined period of time and it executes a script inside a hosting account. There aren't any limits in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it could do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Examples are supplying a regular report with all the end user activity on a specified website, generating a regular backup or deleting the files inside a certain folder. These tasks or some other script can be run on time intervals chosen by the end user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or annually depending on the particular goal. Working with cron jobs to automate diverse areas of administrating a website saves lots of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Web Hosting
If you get any of our web hosting plans, you'll be able to set up cron jobs with only a few clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is very simple to use, so as opposed to entering numbers and asterisks on particular places, which is the typical way to create a cron job, you will be able to pick the minutes, hours or days a script needs to be run using quick drop-down navigation. The latter is done from your Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, if you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also have to type in the path to the script that'll be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, but if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can get in touch with your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are able to assign as many cron jobs as you'd like when you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it doesn't take over a minute to do that. In contrast to many other website hosting Control Panels where you need to type commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to set up a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel includes a time and effort saving interface where you're able to choose how often a cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, day of the week, etcetera. The two things which you'll need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file which should be run along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy/paste the latter from the Server Information area of your hosting Control Panel, therefore it won't take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.