Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular intervals of time pre-set by the end user and they also execute scripts written in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. Determined by what exactly a cron has to do, it may run every minute, every week or maybe once a year. There're plenty of practical applications to make use of cron jobs in your everyday management of a website. For example, a backup of the full website can be generated once per day as well as once per week or an email message with all recent signups for the day may be sent to a particular e-mail. Such automated options can make the administration of every website much easier. There are no specific file types which are allowed or forbidden, so any script can be executed using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

When you get any of our shared hosting packages, you are able to create cron jobs with a couple clicks using your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite simple to use, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on particular places, which is the usual method to create a cron job, you can choose the minutes, hours or days a script should be run using quick drop-down navigation. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method too, if you are skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll need 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 latter can be found in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, yet if you encounter any kind of issues, you can always call your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

Setting up a cron job in our system is quite easy. Once you log in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which comes with all of the semi-dedicated server accounts, you are able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to select the directory path to the script file to be executed as well as the command path for the particular language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the aforementioned inside the Control Panel, so you can copy and paste it with several clicks. Next, select the time interval for the cron using drop-down menus for the minutes, hours, days or months and you are all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process really easy and intuitive, so you won't have any problems if you don't have prior experience. When you are more tech-savvy, you can also use the conventional cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on a single line.