A cron job is a command, that runs automatically in the background over a predefined time period and it runs a script inside a hosting account. There aren't any limitations regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly the file extension should be. Examples are supplying a daily report with all the client activity within a specific site, generating a regular backup or erasing the files inside a certain folder. These kinds of tasks and / or some other script can be executed on intervals picked by the user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even every month as well as once per year based on the particular intent. Making use of cron jobs to speed up different elements of managing a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all the shared website hosting service, allows you to set up cron jobs in a few basic steps even when you have never employed this type of function previously. As soon as you sign in and go to the Cron Jobs area where you are able to create background tasks, you just need to paste the system access path to PHP, Pyton or Perl according to the script that you'll run, type the path inside of your account to the actual script file and then choose how often your cron job has to be carried out. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the standard mode and select the days, hours, minutes, etcetera through uncomplicated drop-down menus, or maybe if you are more experienced, you can use the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method which you may have used with different Control Panels.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

If you want to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it won't take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Installing a new cron job is really easy and you're able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you can find a box to provide 2 things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find inside the Server Information section (Perl, Python, PHP) along with the path to the script that you want the cron job to run. The very last step is to determine how often the cron will be executed and we have a rather intuitive interface for that, therefore by using drop-down navigation you can choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, although more sophisticated way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.