A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a specific action - usually running a script in the hosting account. The task is scheduled, so that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are various reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get day-to-day reports how many visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup of your content may be created in a different folder within your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the management of your sites since you are able to get lots of things done automatically and have reports for them, as opposed to investing precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
Our intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to set up cron jobs without difficulty. In case you don't have prior knowledge of such things, you'll find an incredibly intuitive interface where you could schedule the execution of your cron, selecting one or more time frame possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or specific weekdays. The one thing that you have to enter yourself is the specific task to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More experienced users may also take advantage of the Advanced mode of the instrument and type in manually the execution time with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like additional crons than your cloud hosting plan enables you to have, you are able to upgrade this characteristic in batches of five with just a couple of clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you want to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it will not take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia website hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a brand new cron job is easy and you will be able to add one from the Advanced section of Hepsia where you can find a box to enter two different things - the path to the programming language system files which you can find in the Server Information section (PHP, Python, Perl) and the path to the particular script that you wish the cron job to run. The final step is to decide how often the cron will be executed and we've got an extremely time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down navigation you're able to select the interval in minutes, hours or days. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, although more advanced way to assign a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this alternative as well.