A cron job is an automatic task, which executes a particular action - typically running a script in a web hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are numerous reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get day-to-day reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup of the content can be made in a different folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites because you are able to have lots of things done automatically and get reports for them, rather than investing time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
Creating a cron job requires precisely three very simple steps when you acquire a hosting plan through our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all the hosting accounts, has a section dedicated to the crons and as soon as you get there, you have to enter the folder path to the script that you want to be executed, the command path to the system files for the selected programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy from the Server Information section, and after that determine how frequently the cron job needs to run. For that time interval, we offer two choices - a very intuitive one with drop-down navigation where you can choose the minutes, hours, days or months, and a more advanced one that is used with many other hosting Control Panels in which you are expected to type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that outline different time periods.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are able to install as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take more than one minute to do that. In contrast to many other web hosting Control Panels where you have to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel comes with a time and effort saving interface where you are able to decide how often a new cron has to run by using simple drop-down menus to select the hours, minutes, day of the week, etcetera. The only two things that you'll need to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that should be run and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You will be able to copy/paste the aforementioned from the Server Information section of your website hosting Control Panel, which means that it won't take you more than a couple of clicks to create a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.