A cron job is an automated task, that performs a certain action - usually running some script in a web hosting account. The task is pre-set, which means that it will run on a regular basis - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are numerous reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For example, you can get day-to-day reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, some temp folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup of your content may be generated in a separate folder inside your web hosting account. Using cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites because you can get several things done automatically and get reports for them, as an alternative to spending time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Web Hosting

The easy to use Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs easily. If you do not have prior knowledge of these kinds of matters, you will find a really easy-to-use interface where you can schedule the execution of the cron, picking one or several time frame possibilities - minutes, hours, days, months, or certain days of the week. The only thing that you have to fill manually is the specific command to be run, which consists of the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts and the path to the particular file that is to be executed. More skillful users can also make use of the Advanced mode of our instrument and type in by hand the execution period using numbers and asterisks. If you'd like additional crons than your cloud web hosting plan enables you to have, you can upgrade this characteristic in batches of five with only a few mouse clicks.