A cron job is an automatic task, which performs a specific action - usually executing a script inside a website hosting account. The task is pre-set, which means that it will run regularly - hourly, daily, weekly etc. There are numerous reasons to make use of a cron job for your websites. For instance, you may get regular reports how many website visitors have signed up on your site, a temporary folder may be emptied automatically per week or a backup copy of the 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're able to have several things completed automatically and get reports for them, in lieu of spending valuable time and efforts to complete them manually.

Cron Jobs in Shared Hosting

The Hepsia Control Panel, which is provided with all of the Linux shared hosting packages, allows you to set up cron jobs in a couple of easy steps even when you have never employed this type of option previously. When you sign in and navigate to the Cron Jobs area where you're able to assign background tasks, you just need to copy and paste the system access path to Perl, PHP or Python with respect to the script you'll run, type the path in your account for the specific script file and then choose how often your cron job will be carried out. For the aforementioned, you can use the standard mode and choose the days, hours, minutes, etc. via straightforward drop-down menus, or if you are more knowledgeable, you can take full advantage of the advanced mode and specify the time interval with numbers and asterisks i.e. the standard method that you may have used with various Control Panels.