Cron Jobs
What's a cron job? What ?job? does a cron job commonly perform? How do cron jobs make your online experience quite a bit easier?
A cron job is an automated task, which performs a certain action - typically running a script inside a website hosting account. The task is planned, so it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous reasons to use a cron job for your sites. For example, you may get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have registered on your website, a temporary folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of the content may be created in a separate folder in your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites since it is possible to get a lot of things done automatically and get reports about them, rather than spending valuable time and efforts to complete them by hand.
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Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting
Our simple to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will help you to create cron jobs with no trouble. In case you don't have prior experience with these types of matters, you will find an incredibly easy-to-use interface where you can schedule the execution of the cron, picking one or more time options - minutes, hours, days, months, or exact days of the week. The only thing you will have to fill in yourself is the precise task to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that will be executed. More skillful users may also make use of the Advanced mode of the tool and type in manually the execution time period with numbers and asterisks. If you'd like additional crons than your
cloud website hosting package enables you to have, you'll be able to upgrade this characteristic in batches of five with only a couple of clicks.
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Cron Jobs in Semi-dedicated Hosting
Setting up a cron job in our system is very simple. Once you sign in to the Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all
semi-dedicated server accounts, you'll be able to go to the Cron Jobs section where you just have to pick the directory path to the script file to be run along with the command path for the specific language the script was designed in - PHP, Perl, Python, Bash. You will be able to find the latter within the Control Panel, thus you can copy/paste it with several clicks. Then, choose the time interval for the cron via drop-down menus for the months, days, hours or minutes and you'll be all set. Our cron job setup wizard makes the entire process very easy and intuitive, so you will not have any problems if you do not have prior experience. In case you are more tech-savvy, you may also use the conventional cron format with the two paths, digits and asterisks typed on one line.