A cron job is an automated task, which performs a specific action - generally running some script in the web hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous reasons to employ a cron job for your sites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many website visitors have registered on your site, a temp folder may be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup of the content can be created in a standalone folder in your hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites since you'll be able to get several things done automatically and have reports for them, in lieu of investing time and efforts to do them yourself.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

Our user-friendly Hepsia Hosting Control Panel will allow you to set up cron jobs easily. If you do not have prior experience with such matters, you will find a very easy-to-use interface where one can schedule the execution of the cron, choosing one or several time options - months, days, hours, minutes, or specific weekdays. The thing you will have to type in yourself is the actual command to be run, which includes the path for PHP, Perl and Python scripts as well as the path to the actual file that is to be executed. Knowledgeable customers can also take advantage of the Advanced mode of our tool and type in manually the execution time with numbers and asterisks. If you need more crons than your shared hosting plan allows you to have, you can upgrade this characteristic in increments of five with a couple of clicks.