A cron job is a command, that runs conveniently in the background on a predefined period of time and it also runs a script within a website hosting account. There won't be any limits in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly your file extension should be. Some examples are sending a regular report with all the end user activity within a specific website, generating a regular backup or deleting the files in a specific folder. These kinds of tasks as well as any other script can be executed on intervals specified by the end user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or annually according to the particular goal. Using cron jobs to automate various elements of managing a site saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

Creating a cron job requires exactly three quick steps if you get a shared hosting plan through us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the website hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and when you get there, you need to enter the folder path to the script that you want to be executed, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then determine how frequently the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we provide two choices - a user-friendly one with drop-down navigation where one can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with other web hosting Control Panels in which you are required to type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline different periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your websites, you are able to create cron jobs for any of them without any difficulty. This is done in 3 simple steps in the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage the web hosting account, so you will be able to set up a new cron even if you lack previous experience. Within the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you'll discover a box where you have to copy and paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, etc. You also need to enter the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box then use our user-friendly drop-down menus to decide how often our system will execute the cron. Experienced users, can also employ the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions in addition to the aforementioned paths.