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What Is a Cron Job?
In Unix, cron is a background process manager (daemon) that runs processes or scripts at regular intervals such as every minute, day, week, or month. Learn how cron jobs help you automate tasks in your hosting account.
In the Unix operating system, cron is a regular manager of background processes (a daemon) that runs processes or scripts at regular intervals (for example, every minute, day, week, or month). The processes to be executed and the time at which they should run are specified in the crontab file.
Cron processes can help you automate many tasks. Backing up a database, sending emails, or any other action.
There are a good number of applications that require cron processes to work properly.
All of our hosting plans let you enjoy this feature.
You can configure cron processes using the tool provided by cPanel or DirectAdmin.
The minimum allowed interval is one cron execution every 5 minutes across all of our hosting plans.