A cron job is a command, that functions conveniently in the background on a predefined period of time and it executes a script inside a website hosting account. There are no limits in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it could do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Examples are sending a regular report which contains all of the client activity within a specified site, creating a regular backup or deleting the content inside a specific folder. These tasks as well as any other script can be run on intervals picked by the user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or once per year based on the particular goal. Making use of cron jobs to automate diverse areas of administrating a website saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you simply three easy steps when you get a shared hosting package through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all of the hosting accounts, features an area focused on the crons and once you go there, you should type the folder path to the script that you would like to be executed, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that set how often the cron job needs to run. For the time interval, our company offers two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where one can choose the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with different website hosting Control Panels where you are required to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define different time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are able to install as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it doesn't take over a minute to do that. In contrast to many other web hosting Control Panels where you should type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel features a time and effort saving interface where you're able to choose how often a new cron should be executed by using simple drop-down menus to pick the minutes, hours, weekdays, etcetera. The only two things that you will have to submit manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be run and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information part of your hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than a couple of clicks to create a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.