A cron job is a command, that functions conveniently in the background over a predefined period of time and it executes a script in a hosting account. There are no limits in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly the file extension will be. A few examples are mailing an everyday report with all of the user activity on a specified website, generating a regular backup or erasing the content inside a specific folder. These kinds of tasks or any other script can be executed on intervals picked by the end user - every few minutes, hours or days, and even once a month or perhaps once a year depending on the exact goal. Making use of cron jobs to speed up diverse areas of administrating a site saves a lot of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
When you get any of our hosting plans, you're able to create cron jobs with just a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that before. Hepsia is very simple to use, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the typical technique to set up a cron job, you can select the minutes, hours or days a script has to be executed using very simple drop-down menus. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method as well, if you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also need to enter the path to the script that will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, but if you experience any difficulties, you can get in touch with your tech support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you use a semi-dedicated server account with our company to host your sites, you are able to install cron jobs for any of them effortlessly. This is done in 3 very simple steps in the Hepsia Control Panel that is used to take care of the web hosting account, so you're able to create a new cron even when you do not have any prior experience. Within the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you'll find a box where you should copy and paste the path to the system files in your account for the programming language your script was written in - Perl, Bash, Python, PHP, etcetera. You also have to enter the folder path to the script file that'll be executed in the same box and use our user-friendly drop-down menus to choose how often our system will execute the cron. Advanced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of creating a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions along with the aforementioned paths.