A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a certain action - typically running some script inside a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get daily reports how many website visitors have signed up on your website, a temp folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of the content can be generated in a separate folder inside your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites because you're able to get several things executed automatically and get reports about them, as opposed to spending precious time and efforts to complete them manually.
Cron Jobs in Website Hosting
If you get any of our website hosting packages, you can set up cron jobs with only a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is quite intuitive, so instead of typing numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the common technique to make a cron job, you will be able to select the days, hours or minutes a script has to be run using very simple drop-down menus. This is done in the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, when you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also have to enter the path to the script which will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The latter can be found in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any kind of issues, you can call your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you want to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do that. Creating a new cron job is very simple and you can easily add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to enter two different things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find inside the Server Information area (Perl, Python, PHP) along with the path to the script that you wish the cron job to run. The very last step is to decide how often the cron will be executed and we have an extremely intuitive interface for that, which means that by using drop-down navigation you are able to select the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, albeit more complex way to set a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.