A cron job is a command, which functions automatically in the background on a predefined period and it also executes a script in a website hosting account. There won't be any limitations regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it could do, or what exactly the file extension should be. Examples are sending an everyday report with the user activity on a given website, creating a routine backup or deleting the content in a certain folder. These kinds of tasks and / or some other script can be run on time periods chosen by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even every month or perhaps annually according to the exact goal. Working with cron jobs to speed up numerous aspects of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

When you get any of our shared website hosting plans, you will be able to set up cron jobs with just a few clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that before. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on certain positions, which is the usual method to set up a cron job, you will be able to choose the minutes, hours or days a given script needs to be executed using uncomplicated drop-down menus. This is done in the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, in case you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to enter the path to the script which will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The latter can be found in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can always contact your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you can install cron jobs for any of them without difficulty. This can be done in 3 very simple steps in the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to control the website hosting account, so you can create a new cron even when you lack prior experience. In the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you'll discover a box where you should copy and paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - Python, PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. You also need to enter the folder path to the script file that will be executed in the same box and then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to decide how often our system will run the cron. More advanced users, can also use the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions as well as the previously mentioned paths.