Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular time intervals pre-set by the user and they also execute scripts coded in numerous programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Determined by what actually a cron has to do, it may run every minute, every week or perhaps once per year. There're plenty of practical applications to employ cron jobs in the daily administration of a site. For example, a backup of the whole site can be generated every day or perhaps weekly or an email with all of the fresh signups for the day can be sent to a particular e-mail. These types of automated options can make the management of any website much easier. There won't be any precise file types that are allowed or forbidden, so any script can be executed with a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

If you get any of our shared hosting plans, you'll be able to create cron jobs with a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have not done that previously. Hepsia is quite easy to use, so as opposed to writing numbers and asterisks on specific positions, which is the typical method to assign a cron job, you'll be able to choose the minutes, hours or days some script has to be executed using quick drop-down navigation. The latter is done in the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can use the first method too, if you are skilled enough and you prefer it. In either case, you'll have to enter the path to the script that will be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The last mentioned can be found in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, still if you experience any difficulties, you can always contact your support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

If you would like to use cron jobs for some of your sites and you have a semi-dedicated server account from us, it will not take you more than a few clicks in your Hepsia hosting Control Panel to do this. Setting up a new cron job is quite simple and you can easily add one through the Advanced part of Hepsia where you will find a box to type in two things - the path to the programming language system files that you can find inside the Server Information section (Perl, Python, PHP) along with the path to the script that you need the cron job to run. The very last step is to decide how often the cron will run and we have a very intuitive interface for that, so by using drop-down menus you're able to pick the interval in days, hours or minutes. In case you are more tech-savvy or used to this standard, though more complex way to set a cron interval through digits and asterisks, you can use this solution as well.