A cron job is an automated task, that performs a certain action - generally running some script in a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are numerous good reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you can get daily reports how many site visitors have signed up on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of your content can be made in a standalone folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites because you are able to get lots of things executed automatically and get reports for them, instead of investing valuable time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all our Linux cloud service, will help you to set up cron jobs in several easy steps even when you have not employed such a feature previously. After you log in and go to the Cron Jobs area where you're able to set background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the server access path to Perl, PHP or Python depending on the script that you'll run, type the path in your account to the specific script file and then select how often the cron job will be carried out. For the latter, you can use the basic mode and select the days, hours, minutes, etcetera through straightforward drop-down options, or in case you are more experienced, you can use the advanced mode and specify the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method that you might have used with various Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

Installing a cron job in our system is a breeze. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all the semi-dedicated server accounts, you're able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just need to pick the directory path to the script file to be run and the command path for the specific language the script was written in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You can find the latter in the Control Panel, thus you can copy/paste it with several clicks. Then, select the time interval for the cron via drop-down navigation for the months, days, hours or minutes and you will be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process really simple and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you don't have previous experience. In case you are more experienced, you can also take advantage of the conventional cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.