A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a particular action - typically executing some script in a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly and so on. There are many good reasons to use a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many website visitors have registered on your site, some temporary folder may be emptied automatically each week or a backup of your content can be created in a standalone folder in your web hosting account. Making use of cron jobs can help you with the management of your sites because you are able to get many things executed automatically and have reports about them, rather than investing time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is featured with all of the Linux website hosting, allows you to set up cron jobs in a few simple steps even if you haven't ever employed this option before. When you sign in and proceed to the Cron Jobs section where you're able to assign background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the system access path to PHP, Perl or Python depending on the script you'll execute, type the path within your account to the actual script file and then choose how often your cron job has to be executed. For the aforementioned, you can use the standard mode and choose the days, hours, minutes, etcetera using simple drop-down options, or maybe in case you are more experienced, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and set the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method that you may have used with various other Control Panels.