Creating and Managing Cron Jobs

Cron jobs run commands on a schedule — perfect for maintenance scripts, report generation, or CMS tasks.

Create a cron job

1. Go to Advanced Features → Cron Jobs.
2. Click Add Cron Job.
3. Set the schedule using minute, hour, day, month, and weekday fields (or use a preset such as daily).
4. Enter the command — often a PHP script path such as /usr/local/bin/php /home/user/domains/example.com/public_html/cron.php.
5. Save the job.

Best practices

• Use full paths to PHP and scripts.
• Redirect output to a log file for debugging.
• Avoid running intensive jobs every minute.

Many applications provide the exact cron command in their documentation — copy it exactly.