A cron job is an automated task, which executes a certain action - typically running a script in a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run on a regular basis - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are numerous reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For instance, you can get daily reports how many site visitors have registered on your site, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup copy of the content can be created in a separate folder inside your hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites as you're able to have several things carried out automatically and have reports for them, in lieu of investing time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

When you get any of our shared hosting packages, you're able to set up cron jobs with a couple clicks in your Hepsia Control Panel even when you have never done that previously. Hepsia is really user-friendly, so rather than writing numbers and asterisks on certain places, which is the usual way to set up a cron job, you'll be able to select the minutes, hours or days a script has to be run using quick drop-down menus. The latter is done from the Cron Jobs area of the Control Panel and, naturally, you can always use the first method as well, if you are experienced enough and you prefer it. In both cases, you will also need to type in the path to the script that'll be executed and the path to the PHP, Python or Perl system files within your account. The latter is included in the Control Panel and you'll be able to copy/paste it, yet if you experience any kind of issues, you can contact your tech support team.