In Unix-based operating systems, cron is a background process manager (daemon) that executes processes or scripts at regular intervals (for example, every minute, day, week, or month). The processes to be executed and their scheduled times are specified in a crontab file.
Cron jobs can help you automate many tasks — such as backing up a database, sending emails, or performing other scheduled actions.
A good number of applications require cron jobs to work correctly.
All our hosting plans support this feature.
You can configure cron jobs using the tools available in cPanel or DirectAdmin.
The minimum execution interval for a cron job is every 5 minutes on all our hosting plans.