A cron job is an automatic task, that executes a certain action - typically running a script in a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are lots of good reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup copy of your content may be generated in a standalone folder inside your web hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites as you are able to have numerous things carried out automatically and get reports about them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them manually.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
The simple to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs with ease. If you do not have prior knowledge about these kinds of matters, you will find a very user-friendly interface where you could schedule the execution of your cron, choosing one or more time frame options - minutes, hours, days, months, or specific weekdays. The only thing you will have to fill in yourself is the specific task to be executed, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the actual file that will be executed. More knowledgeable users can also use the Advanced mode of our tool and enter by hand the execution time period using numbers and asterisks. If you'd like more crons than your hosting package lets you have, you're able to upgrade this feature in batches of five with a few mouse clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you'd like to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Installing a brand new cron job is very simple and you are able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to provide two different things - the path to the programming language system files which you'll find in the Server Information section (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the script that you wish the cron job to execute. The very last step is to determine how often the cron will run and we've got an extremely user-friendly interface for that, so by using drop-down navigation you're able to select the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more advanced way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.