A cron job is a command, which works conveniently in the background on a pre-set period and it also executes a script within a hosting account. There are no limitations in regard to what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Some examples are mailing an everyday report with the user activity on a specific website, creating a routine backup or deleting the files in a specific folder. These tasks and / or almost every other script can be executed on time intervals specified by the end user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or once per year based on the particular goal. Working with cron jobs to improve numerous elements of administrating a website saves considerable time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

Creating a cron job will take you just three easy steps when you obtain a shared hosting package from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the web hosting accounts, features an area centered on the crons and as soon as you get there, you should enter the folder path to the script that you want to be run, the command path to the system files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and determine how frequently the cron job has to run. For the time interval, we provide two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where you can choose the minutes, hours, days and/or months, and a more complex one that is used with various other hosting Control Panels where you should type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define separate periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you use a semi-dedicated server account from us to host your sites, you are able to install cron jobs for all of them without difficulty. This is done in three really easy steps from the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to manage the hosting account, so you will be able to create a new cron even when you don't have any prior experience. In the Cron Jobs part of Hepsia, you will find a box where you should copy and paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Bash, Python, and so on. You also need to provide the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box and use our user-friendly drop-down menus to choose how often our system will run the cron. Advanced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in certain positions as well as the previously mentioned paths.