A cron job is a command, that runs automatically in the background on a pre-set time period and it also runs a script inside a hosting account. There aren't any limitations regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly your file extension will be. Some examples are mailing a daily report with all of the user activity within a given website, creating a regular backup or erasing the files inside a certain folder. These kinds of tasks and / or almost every other script can be run on time intervals selected by the end user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even monthly or maybe once per year based on the particular purpose. Making use of cron jobs to automate numerous aspects of managing a site saves lots of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Website Hosting
When you get any of our website hosting plans, you will be able to set up cron jobs with just a few clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite user-friendly, so instead of writing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the common technique to make a cron job, you'll be able to choose the days, hours or minutes some script needs to be executed using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method too, when you're experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll need to enter the path to the script that will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The aforementioned is available in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of issues, you can contact your technical support team.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You will be able to set up as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take over one minute to do that. Unlike various other hosting Control Panels where you need to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to be able to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel has a user-friendly interface where you are able to select how often a cron has to run by using simple drop-down menus to pick the hours, minutes, day of the week, etcetera. The only two things that you will have 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 (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy the aforementioned from the Server Information section of your hosting Control Panel, therefore it won't take you more than a couple of clicks to set up a cron job inside your semi-dedicated account.