A cron job is a command, which functions automatically in the background on a pre-set period of time and it executes a script in a hosting account. There won't be any restrictions in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it could do, or what exactly the file extension should be. A few examples are mailing an everyday report with the end user activity on a given website, creating a routine backup or erasing the content in a certain folder. These types of tasks and / or some other script can be run on time intervals specified by the end user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even monthly as well as annually according to the exact objective. Using cron jobs to automate numerous areas of administrating a website saves lots of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting
If you get any of our cloud website hosting plans, you are able to set up cron jobs with a couple of clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that previously. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so instead of entering numbers and asterisks on certain positions, which is the common way to make a cron job, you'll be able to pick the days, hours or minutes a given script needs to be executed using very simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done from your Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, when you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll need to type in the path to the script that'll be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The aforementioned is available in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can always contact your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up 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 can go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to select the directory path to the script file to be executed along with the command path for the particular language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You are able to find the aforementioned in the Control Panel, thus you can copy and paste it with a few clicks. Next, select the time interval for the cron through drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you'll be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the process very easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have previous experience. In case you are more experienced, you may also take advantage of the common cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.