A cron job is an automated task, that performs a certain action - usually executing some script inside a hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are various reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup of the content can be made in a separate folder within your hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites since you're able to get several things completed automatically and have reports for them, as opposed to investing valuable time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting
When you get any of our shared hosting plans, you will be able to create cron jobs with a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have never done that before. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so rather than entering numbers and asterisks on certain positions, which is the usual way to set up a cron job, you can pick the days, hours or minutes a given script needs to be executed using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done in the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method as well, if you are skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll have to enter the path to the script that will 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 are able to copy/paste it, still if you encounter any difficulties, you can always contact your support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
You're able to create as many cron jobs as you would like when 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 various other website hosting Control Panels where you should enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel comes with a time and effort saving interface where you'll be able to decide how often a new cron should be executed by using simple drop-down menus to choose the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The only two things that you'll have to enter manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be executed along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You'll be able to copy/paste the latter from the Server Information section of your web hosting Control Panel, which means that it will not take you more than several clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.