A cron job is an automated task, which executes a certain action - typically running a script in a web hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are many good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. As an example, you may get daily reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, some temp folder can be emptied automatically each week or a backup copy of the content can be generated in a separate folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites as you can get many things completed automatically and get reports for them, rather than spending precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all our Linux cloud website hosting, will allow you to create cron jobs in a couple of easy steps even when you haven't ever employed this option before. As soon as you sign in and visit the Cron Jobs area where you're able to assign background tasks, you just have to paste the system access path to Perl, PHP or Python depending on the script you'll execute, type the path within your account for the actual script file and then select how often the cron job has to be carried out. For the latter, you can use the standard mode and select the days, hours, minutes, etcetera through uncomplicated drop-down options, or if you are more experienced, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method which you might have employed with various Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
In case you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you are able to set up cron jobs for any of them without any difficulty. This is done in 3 very easy steps from the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to manage the web hosting account, so you're able to set up a new cron even if you don't have any prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you'll discover a box where you need to copy/paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, etc. You also need to submit the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box and use our user-friendly drop-down menus to select how often our system will run the cron. More experienced users, can also use the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions along with the aforementioned paths.