Cron jobs are timetabled tasks, that are executed on regular intervals of time set by the user and they also execute scripts developed in different programming languages - PHP, Perl, Bash, etcetera. Depending on what exactly a cron needs to do, it may run each and every minute, weekly or maybe each year. There are many effective applications to use cron jobs in the daily administration of a website. Such as, a backup copy of the full website may be generated daily as well as weekly or an e-mail message with all fresh signups for the day may be sent to a specific email address. Such automatic options can make the management of every website much easier. There are no specific file types that can be allowed / forbidden, so any script can be executed using a cron job.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting

Setting up a cron job will take you exactly three simple steps if you get a cloud website hosting package from our company. The Hepsia Control Panel, that comes with all the hosting accounts, has a section focused on the crons and once you get there, you have to enter the folder path to the script which you want to be executed, the command path to the server files for the particular programming language (Perl, Python, PHP), that you can copy from the Server Information section, and set how frequently the cron job needs to run. For the time interval, our company offers two choices - a user-friendly one with drop-down menus where you can choose the minutes, hours, days or months, and a more complex one that is used with many other hosting Control Panels where you are expected to type numbers and asterisks on specific positions that define different time periods.

Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Servers

You can set up as many cron jobs as you'd like if you host your sites in a semi-dedicated server account from us and it does not take over one minute to do that. Unlike various other hosting Control Panels where you need to enter commands and use numbers and asterisks on a single line so that you can set up a cron job, the Hepsia Control Panel comes with an intuitive interface where you'll be able to choose how often a new cron needs to run by using simple drop-down menus to pick the minutes, hours, weekdays, etc. The only two things which you'll have to type in manually are the folder path to the script file that has to be run and the command path to the programming language system files in the account (Perl, Python, PHP). You can copy the latter from the Server Information section of your web hosting Control Panel, so it won't take you more than several clicks to set up a cron job within your semi-dedicated account.