Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that are executed on regular time intervals pre-set by the end user and they execute scripts written in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. Determined by what actually a cron has to do, it can run each minute, every week or perhaps once a year. There are lots of handy applications to make use of cron jobs in the day-to-day administration of a website. For example, a backup copy of the entire website can be generated once per day or perhaps once per week or an email message with all of the recent signups for the day may be sent to a certain email. These types of automated options will make the administration of every site much easier. There are no particular file types that are allowed or forbidden, so any script can be run using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

When you get any of our shared website hosting packages, you can create cron jobs with just a few mouse clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that before. Hepsia is really intuitive, so as opposed to entering numbers and asterisks on certain positions, which is the typical technique to make a cron job, you can pick the minutes, hours or days a script should be executed using very simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done in your Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, in case you're skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll have to type in the path to the script that'll be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned is included in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any difficulties, you can call your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You are able to assign as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take more than one minute to do that. Unlike various hosting Control Panels where you need to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to be able to set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel includes an intuitive interface where you can choose how often a new cron needs to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to pick the hours, minutes, weekdays, etc. The only two things that you'll have to enter manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be executed 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 part of your hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than a few clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.