A cron job is a command, which functions conveniently in the background on a pre-set time period and it runs a script inside a hosting account. There won't be any restrictions regarding what the script can be - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it could do, or what exactly the file extension should be. Some examples are supplying a day-to-day report with all the client activity within a specific website, generating a regular backup or deleting the files within a certain folder. These tasks as well as some other script can be executed on time intervals selected by the user - every couple of minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or once per year depending on the specific intent. Using cron jobs to automate diverse aspects of administrating a site saves lots of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

If you get any of our website hosting plans, you are able to create cron jobs with just a few mouse clicks through your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that before. Hepsia is quite intuitive, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the usual method to assign a cron job, you'll be able to choose the days, hours or minutes a script should be executed using very simple drop-down navigation. This is done from the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, of course, you can use the first method as well, in case you're experienced enough and you prefer it. In either case, you will also have to type in the path to the script that'll be executed as well as the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The aforementioned can be found in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, but if you experience any kind of difficulties, you can contact your support team.