Cron jobs are scheduled tasks, that run on regular time intervals set by the end user and they execute scripts developed in several programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, and so on. Depending on what exactly a cron should do, it may run every single minute, once a week or even each year. There are numerous useful applications to make use of cron jobs in your day-to-day administration of a website. For instance, a backup copy of the whole website can be generated once per day as well as weekly or an email with all of the new signups for the day may be delivered to a certain email address. This kind of automatic options can make the management of any website faster and easier. There aren't any particular file types that can be allowed or forbidden, so every script can be executed using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

If you get any of our shared hosting plans, you are able to set up cron jobs with a few clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is very easy to use, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the common method to make a cron job, you'll be able to select the minutes, hours or days a given script has to be executed using uncomplicated drop-down navigation. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs part of the Control Panel and, of course, you can always use the first method as well, in case you're knowledgeable enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also have to enter the path to the script that'll be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files in your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any issues, you can always call your technical support team.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting

You'll be able to install as many cron jobs as you would like when you host your websites in a semi-dedicated server account from our company and it does not take over a minute to do that. Unlike many other website hosting Control Panels where you should type in commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line to set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel includes a user-friendly interface where you will be able to select how often a new cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to select the hours, minutes, weekdays, etcetera. The two things that you will have to enter manually are the folder path to the script file which should be run along with the command path to the programming language system files in the account (PHP. Perl, Python). You can copy/paste the latter from the Server Information section of your web hosting Control Panel, so it will not take you more than several clicks to create a cron job in your semi-dedicated account.