Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that are executed on regular time intervals set by the end user and they also execute scripts written in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etc. Depending on what exactly a cron should do, it may run each minute, weekly or perhaps once a year. There are numerous handy applications to use cron jobs in your daily management of a site. For instance, a backup copy of the entire website can be generated every day as well as once per week or an email with all of the fresh signups for the day can be sent to a particular email. These types of automatic options can make the administration of every site faster and easier. There won't be any precise file types which are allowed or forbidden, so every script can be executed using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you simply 3 easy steps when you get a web hosting plan from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all the website hosting accounts, features a section dedicated to the crons and as soon as you go there, you need to type the folder path to the script that you would like to be run, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and then set how frequently the cron job should run. For the time interval, our company offers two choices - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where you can choose the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more complex one that is used with various other web hosting Control Panels in which you need to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define separate periods of time.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you'd like to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia web hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a new cron job is very easy and you can easily add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you can find a box to type in two different things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find inside the Server Information section (PHP, Python, Perl) along with the path to the script that you need the cron job to execute. The very last step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we have a really intuitive interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you can easily choose the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to the particular standard, albeit more advanced way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this method as well.