A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a particular action - generally executing some script in the web hosting account. The task is planned, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are various good reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of your content may be generated in a separate folder within your hosting account. Employing cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites as you can have many things carried out automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of investing time and efforts to complete them yourself.
Cron Jobs in Cloud Hosting
The Hepsia Control Panel, that is provided with all of the Linux cloud hosting, will help you to create cron jobs in a few simple steps even if you haven't ever used such a function before. As soon as you sign in and go to the Cron Jobs area where you can assign background tasks, you just need to paste the system access path to PHP, Perl or Python with respect to the script you will execute, type the path in your account for the actual script file and then select how often the cron job has to be carried out. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the basic mode and select the minutes, hours, days, etcetera through simple drop-down menus, or maybe if you are more experienced, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the usual method which you might have employed with other Control Panels.
Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers
If you use a semi-dedicated server account with us to host your sites, you're able to set up cron jobs for all of them effortlessly. This is done in three uncomplicated steps in the Hepsia Control Panel which is used to take care of the website hosting account, so you're able to set up a new cron even when you don't have any prior experience. In the Cron Jobs section of Hepsia, you'll find a box where you should copy/paste the path to the system files inside your account for the programming language your script was written in - PHP, Python, Perl, Bash, etc. You also have to submit the folder path to the script file which will be executed in the same box and use our user-friendly drop-down menus to select how often our system will execute the cron. Advanced users, can also take advantage of the traditional method of setting up a cron job by typing digits and asterisks in specific positions along with the aforementioned paths.