A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a certain action - generally executing a script in the website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get day-to-day 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 may be made in a different folder in your website hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites since you're able to get lots of things carried out automatically and have reports for them, as opposed to spending time and efforts to complete them manually.
Cron Jobs in Web Hosting
Creating a cron job will take you exactly 3 simple steps if you get a web hosting plan with us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the website hosting accounts, has a section centered on the crons and once you get there, you have to enter the folder path to the script which you want to be run, the command path to the system files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and determine how frequently the cron job needs to run. For the time interval, we offer two options - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where one can pick the minutes, hours, days or months, as well as a more advanced one that's used with different website hosting Control Panels where you should type numbers and asterisks on certain positions that outline different time periods.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
Setting up a cron job in our system is easy. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you are able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you only have to choose the directory path to the script file to be run as well as the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You'll be able to find the aforementioned inside the Control Panel, so you can copy and paste it with a couple of clicks. Next, choose the time period for your cron through 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 very simple and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you do not have prior experience. If you are more experienced, you can also take advantage of the regular cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.