Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular time intervals set by the user and they also execute scripts written in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what actually a cron should do, it can run each and every minute, once a week or maybe once per year. There're plenty of practical applications to employ cron jobs in the day-to-day administration of a website. Such as, a backup of the full site may be generated once a day or maybe once a week or an e-mail with all new signups for the day may be sent to a particular email address. Such automatic options will make the administration of every website much easier. There won't be any precise file types that are allowed / forbidden, so any script can be run with a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

When you get any of our shared hosting plans, you're able to create cron jobs with a couple mouse clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that previously. Hepsia is very easy to use, so rather than typing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the usual way to set up a cron job, you can select the minutes, hours or days a script should be executed using uncomplicated drop-down menus. This is done in your Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, when you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also have to enter the path to the script which will be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The last mentioned is available in the Control Panel and you're able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of issues, you can always get in touch with your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You will be able to assign as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your sites with a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it doesn't take over one minute to do that. In contrast to various other web hosting Control Panels where you should enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can create a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel includes a time and effort saving interface where you can select how often a new cron has to be executed 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 which has to be executed plus the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy the latter from the Server Information part of your web hosting Control Panel, therefore it won't take you more than a few clicks to create a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.