A cron job is an automated task, that performs a certain action - generally executing some script inside a website hosting account. The task is scheduled, which means that it will run regularly - weekly, daily, hourly etc. There are various reasons to use a cron job for your sites. As an example, you can get regular reports how many website visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder can be emptied automatically once a week or a backup copy of the content may be created in a separate folder within your website hosting account. Making use of cron jobs will help you with the administration of your websites since you can get a lot of things done automatically and have reports about them, as opposed to spending precious time and efforts to do them by hand.

Cron Jobs in Shared Web Hosting

The user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs effortlessly. If you do not have prior experience with such things, you will find a very easy-to-use interface where one can schedule the execution of your cron, choosing one or several time frame possibilities - months, days, hours, minutes, or certain weekdays. The one thing that you have to fill in yourself is the precise command to be executed, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the actual file that is to be executed. More skillful customers can also make use of the Advanced mode of our instrument and type in manually the execution period with numbers and asterisks. If you want more crons than your shared web hosting plan allows you to have, you're able to upgrade this feature in increments of five with just a few clicks.