A cron job is a command, which works conveniently in the background on a pre-set period and it also executes a script in a website hosting account. There are no limits in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly the file extension should be. Some examples are mailing a regular report with all of the user activity on a given site, creating a routine backup or erasing the files within a certain folder. These tasks and / or any other script can be executed on time intervals picked by the user - each couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once per month as well as annually based on the specific purpose. Making use of cron jobs to speed up various areas of administrating a website saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of our Linux hosting, will allow you to set up cron jobs in a couple of easy steps even if you have never used this type of feature previously. After you log in and proceed to the Cron Jobs section where you can set background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the server access path to PHP, Perl or Python with respect to the script you'll run, type the path within your account for the specific script file and choose how often your cron job will be carried out. For the aforementioned, you can use the standard mode and pick the days, hours, minutes, etc. via uncomplicated drop-down menus, or maybe if you are more experienced, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method which you might have used with various Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you would like to use cron jobs for any of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it won't take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Creating a new cron job is really easy and you will be able to add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you'll find in the Server Information section (PHP, Perl, Python) along with the path to the particular script that you would like the cron job to run. The final step is to choose how often the cron will run and we have a rather user-friendly interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can easily pick the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, though more complex way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.