Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that run on regular intervals of time pre-set by the end user and they also execute scripts coded in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what actually a cron should do, it may run every single minute, every week or even each year. There're a lot of useful applications to use cron jobs in the daily management of a site. For example, a backup of the whole site can be generated daily or maybe weekly or an e-mail with all fresh signups for the day can be sent to a given email. Such automatic options will make the management of every website much easier. There won't be any precise file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be run using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

Setting up a cron job requires exactly three easy steps when you acquire a shared hosting package from us. The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all the website hosting accounts, has a section centered on the crons and when you get there, you need to enter the folder path to the script which you want to be run, the command path to the system files for the specified programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), which you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and then set how often the cron job has to run. For that time interval, we offer two options - an easy to use one with drop-down navigation where one can select the minutes, hours, days and/or months, along with a more complex one that's used with different web hosting Control Panels in which you should type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that define different time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account with us, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do that. Setting up a new cron job is very simple and you are able to add one from the Advanced part of Hepsia where you'll find a box to type in two different things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find in the Server Information area (PHP, Perl, Python) and the path to the particular script that you would like the cron job to run. The last step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we have an extremely time and effort saving interface for that, which means that by using drop-down menus you can easily select the interval in days, hours or minutes. If you are more tech-savvy or used to the standard, though more advanced way to set a cron interval employing digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.