A cron job is an automated task, which performs a particular action - generally executing some script in the website hosting account. The task is planned, so it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are numerous good reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get day-to-day reports how many site visitors have signed up on your website, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically every week or a backup copy of your content may be generated in a separate folder in your hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites because you are able to get several things executed automatically and get reports about them, as an alternative to spending precious time and efforts to complete them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
Our user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs in no time. In case you don't have prior knowledge of these types of things, you will find a really easy-to-use interface where you could schedule the execution of your cron, selecting one or more time frame options - minutes, hours, days, months, or particular weekdays. The single thing you will have to type in yourself is the precise task to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More knowledgeable customers can also take advantage of the Advanced mode of the instrument and type in manually the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you want additional crons than your cloud hosting plan lets you have, you're able to upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with just a few mouse clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You're able to set up as many cron jobs as you would like if you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take more than one minute to do that. Unlike various website hosting Control Panels where you need to type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to be able to set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel includes a user-friendly interface where you're able to select how often a new cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to pick the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The two things that you will need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be run plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You can copy and 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 few clicks to create a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.