A cron job is a command, which works conveniently in the background on a pre-set time period and it also runs a script in a hosting account. There won't be any limitations in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etc., what it can do, or what exactly the file extension should be. A few examples are mailing a regular report which contains all of the user activity on a given site, generating a routine backup or erasing the files inside a particular folder. These tasks or some other script can be run on intervals picked by the end user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or once per year depending on the exact purpose. Using cron jobs to speed up diverse aspects of administrating a site saves a lot of time and efforts.
Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting
Our user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to create cron jobs effortlessly. If you don't have prior experience with such matters, you will find a really intuitive interface where one can schedule the execution of the cron, picking one or more time possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or specific weekdays. The sole thing that you will have to enter manually is the precise command to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More capable users can also take advantage of the Advanced mode of the instrument and type in by hand the execution period using numbers and asterisks. If you need additional crons than your shared website hosting plan enables you to have, you are able to upgrade this feature in increments of five with only a couple of mouse clicks.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
You are able to assign as many cron jobs as you need if you host your websites with a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take more than a minute to do that. Unlike other hosting Control Panels where you should type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to create a cron job, our Hepsia Control Panel comes with an intuitive interface where you'll be able to choose how often a cron has to be executed by using simple drop-down menus to choose the hours, minutes, day of the week, etcetera. The two things which you will need to enter manually are the folder path to the script file which has to be executed plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You'll be able to copy and paste the latter from the Server Information part of your web hosting Control Panel, therefore it will not take you more than a couple of clicks to create a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.