Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, which are executed on regular time intervals set by the user and they execute scripts developed in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. In accordance with what exactly a cron has to do, it can run every minute, every week or perhaps once per year. There are a lot of useful applications to make use of cron jobs in your day-to-day administration of a website. Such as, a backup of the whole site can be generated every day or maybe once per week or an e-mail with all new signups for the day may be sent to a given e-mail. This kind of automatic options will make the management of any website much easier. There are no specific file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be executed using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

If you get any of our website hosting plans, you are able to set up cron jobs with a couple of mouse clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is very easy to use, so as opposed to writing numbers and asterisks on particular positions, which is the typical method to make a cron job, you will be able to pick the minutes, hours or days a script needs to be executed using very simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, when you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In both cases, 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 in your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, still if you encounter any issues, you can contact your tech support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You are able to install as many cron jobs as you would like if you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take more than a minute to do that. In contrast to various other website hosting Control Panels where you need to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line in order to create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel features a user-friendly interface where you'll be able to select how often a cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to select the minutes, hours, weekdays, etcetera. The only two things that you will need to submit manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be executed and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You'll be able to copy and paste the aforementioned from the Server Information area of your hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.