A cron job is an automated task, that performs a specific action - typically running a script in the web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For example, you may get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have registered on your site, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically weekly or a backup copy of the content can be created in a standalone folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the administration of your websites as you're able to get numerous things carried out automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of spending precious time and efforts to do them manually.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all of our Linux hosting, allows you to create cron jobs in several basic steps even if you have not employed such a option before. When you log in and go to the Cron Jobs section where you're able to create background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the server access path to Perl, PHP or Python according to the script that you'll run, type the path within your account for the actual script file and choose how often the cron job will be carried out. For the latter, you can use the basic mode and select the minutes, hours, days, etc. via uncomplicated drop-down options, or in case you are more experienced, you can use the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method that you may have used with other Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you use a semi-dedicated server account from our company to host your sites, you can create cron jobs for any of them without any difficulty. This is done in 3 really easy steps in the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to take care of the hosting account, so you will be able to create a new cron even when you don't have any previous experience. In the Cron Jobs area of Hepsia, you will find a box where you need to copy and paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was designed in - Python, PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. You also have to provide the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box then use our intuitive drop-down menus to choose how often our system will execute the cron. More experienced 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 aforementioned paths.