A cron job is an automated task, that performs a certain action - generally executing some script inside a hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly and so on. There are lots of good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. As an example, you may get daily reports how many visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically weekly or a backup copy of your content can be created in a separate folder within your website hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites since it is possible to have several things done automatically and have reports for them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to do them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is featured with all our web hosting, will allow you to set up cron jobs in several simple steps even when you have not used this feature previously. When you sign in and visit the Cron Jobs area where you'll be able to create background tasks, you just need to paste the server access path to PHP, Perl or Python depending on the script that you'll execute, type the path inside of your account to the actual script file and choose how often your cron job will be carried out. For the aforementioned, you'll be able to use the standard mode and select the minutes, hours, days, etcetera via uncomplicated drop-down menus, or in case you are more experienced, you can take advantage of the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method which you might have employed with other Control Panels.