A cron job is an automatic task, that executes a certain action - usually running a script in the website hosting account. The task is pre-set, so that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous reasons to employ a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get daily reports how many visitors have signed up on your site, a temp folder can be emptied automatically each and every week or a backup copy of the content can be made in a separate folder in your hosting account. Using cron jobs can help you with the management of your websites as you'll be able to get numerous things done automatically and have reports for them, as an alternative to spending time and efforts to do them manually.

Cron Jobs in Cloud Website Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, that is featured with all of the Linux cloud website hosting packages, will help you to set up cron jobs in a couple of easy steps even if you have not employed this type of feature previously. As soon as you log in and proceed to the Cron Jobs area where you're able to assign background tasks, you just have to copy and paste the system access path to PHP, Perl or Python depending on the script you'll run, type the path within your account to the actual script file and after that select how often the cron job has to be executed. For the latter, you can use the basic mode and choose the days, hours, minutes, etcetera through straightforward drop-down menus, or if you are more experienced, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and set the time period with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method that you might have used with other Control Panels.