A cron job is a command, which works automatically in the background over a predefined period of time and it also executes a script within a web hosting account. There won't be any restrictions in regard to what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it could do, or what exactly the file extension should be. A few examples are mailing an everyday report which contains all of the client activity within a specific website, creating a regular backup or deleting the content in a certain folder. These tasks as well as almost every other script can be executed on intervals picked by the end user - each few minutes, hours or days, and even once per month or perhaps annually according to the specific goal. Working with cron jobs to improve different aspects of managing a site saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Shared Website Hosting

When you get any of our shared website hosting packages, you can create cron jobs with a couple of clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even if you have not done that previously. Hepsia is really user-friendly, so as opposed to typing numbers and asterisks on specific places, which is the typical way to make a cron job, you'll be able to select the minutes, hours or days a script should be run using very simple drop-down navigation. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs section of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method too, when you are skilled enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you'll have to type in the path to the script that will be executed along with the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files inside your account. The latter can be found in the Control Panel and you are able to copy/paste it, but if you experience any difficulties, you can always contact your tech support team.