A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a certain action - generally running a script in a web hosting account. The task is planned, therefore it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are lots of reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For example, you can get regular reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder can be emptied automatically per week or a backup of the content can be made in a different folder inside your website hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your websites as it is possible to have many things completed automatically and get reports for them, instead of investing time and efforts to complete them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Website Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, which is included with all of the Linux website hosting packages, allows you to set up cron jobs in a couple of basic steps even if you have never employed such a feature before. When you sign in and go to the Cron Jobs section where you're able to assign background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the system access path to PHP, Perl or Python according to the script you will execute, type the path in your account for the specific script file and select how often your cron job has to be executed. For the aforementioned, you can use the standard mode and pick the days, hours, minutes, etc. via straightforward drop-down options, or if you are more skilled, you can use the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method which you may have employed with other Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
If you'd like to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it will not take you more than a few clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do that. Setting up a brand new cron job is quite simple and you'll be able to add one through the Advanced section of Hepsia where you'll find a box to provide two things - the path to the programming language system files which you will find in the Server Information area (PHP, Python, Perl) and the path to the particular script that you want the cron job to execute. The last step is to determine how often the cron will be executed and we have a very user-friendly interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you'll be able to select the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, though more complex way to assign a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.