A cron job is an automatic task, that performs a certain action - usually executing a script in the hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are numerous good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For example, you may get regular reports how many visitors have signed up on your website, a temp folder can be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of your content may be made in a separate folder within your web hosting account. Employing cron jobs will help you with the administration of your sites because you can get numerous things executed automatically and have reports about them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them manually.
Cron Jobs in Hosting
When you get any of our hosting plans, you'll be able to create cron jobs with a couple mouse clicks via your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is really easy to use, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the common technique to make a cron job, you will be able to choose the days, hours or minutes a script has to be run using simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done from your 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 both cases, you will also need to enter the path to the script which will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The aforementioned can be found in the Control Panel and you can copy/paste it, still if you encounter any kind of issues, you can always get in touch with your technical support team.