A cron job is a command, that functions automatically in the background over a predefined period and it runs a script inside a website hosting account. There are no limitations regarding what the script is - PHP, Bash, Perl, etcetera, what it can do, or what exactly the file extension will be. Some examples are supplying a daily report with the end user activity within a given website, creating a regular backup or erasing the content inside a particular folder. These tasks and / or some other script can be executed on time periods selected by the end user - every couple of minutes, hours or days, and even every month or maybe annually according to the particular purpose. Using cron jobs to speed up various aspects of administrating a site saves a lot of time and efforts.

Cron Jobs in Web Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is included with all our Linux web hosting packages, will help you to set up cron jobs in a few basic steps even if you have not used this feature previously. Once you log in and go to the Cron Jobs area where you'll be able to set background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the system access path to PHP, Perl or Python based on the script that you will run, type the path inside of your account to the specific script file and choose how often your cron job will be executed. For the latter, you can use the basic mode and select the minutes, hours, days, etc. through simple drop-down navigation, or in case you are more knowledgeable, you can use the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the typical method that you may have used with various other Control Panels.