A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a particular action - generally running some script inside a website hosting account. The task is planned, which means that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are numerous reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get regular reports how many site visitors have signed up on your website, some temp folder can be emptied automatically per week or a backup copy of your content can be created in a different folder within your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites since you can get a lot of things carried out automatically and get reports for them, as an alternative to investing valuable time and efforts to complete them by hand.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
Creating a cron job will take you simply three very simple steps when you get a cloud hosting plan from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the website hosting accounts, has an area focused on the crons and as soon as you go there, you need to type the folder path to the script that you want to be run, the command path to the server files for the specific programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy and paste from the Server Information section, and specify how frequently the cron job should run. For that time interval, our company offers two options - a very intuitive one with drop-down menus where you can choose the minutes, hours, days or months, along with a more complex one that is used with various other web hosting Control Panels in which you should type numbers and asterisks on particular positions that outline different periods of time.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you wish to use cron jobs for any of your websites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from our company, it won't take you more than a couple of clicks inside your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do that. Installing a new cron job is really simple and you'll be able to add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to enter 2 things - the path to the programming language system files that you will find inside the Server Information area (Perl, Python, PHP) and the path to the script that you'd like the cron job to run. The final step is to select how often the cron will be executed and we've got a rather time and effort saving interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you're able to pick the interval in minutes, hours or days. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, though more sophisticated way to assign a cron interval using digits and asterisks, you can use this option as well.