A cron job is an automated task, that performs a particular action - typically running a script in a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are lots of good reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, some temp folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup copy of your content can be generated in a separate folder inside your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites because you can have a lot of things completed automatically and have reports about them, in lieu of spending precious time and efforts to complete them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

Our intuitive Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to create cron jobs without difficulty. If you do not have prior knowledge about these kinds of things, you'll find a really easy-to-use interface where you could schedule the execution of the cron, choosing one or several time possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or particular days of the week. The sole thing that you have to enter yourself is the actual command to be executed, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the particular file that will be executed. Knowledgeable customers may also make use of the Advanced mode of our instrument and type in manually the execution period using numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your shared web hosting plan allows you to have, you can upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with a few mouse clicks.