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What are Cron Jobs?

A cron job is a Linux command for scheduling a task to be executed sometime in the future. This is normally used to schedule a job that is executed periodically - for example, to send out a notice every morning.

What you need to know:

Shared, Reseller, SEO

You MAY NOT run a cron job more often than every 15 minutes.

If you are getting errors when using the GET command, please contact us and request access.


VPS and Dedicated Server

You may run a cron job as often as you desire.

We enable GET and WGET by default.

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Jeremy
You say that I can't setup a cron job that runs less than every 15 minutes, but in the demo it lists options for one, two, five, and ten minutes?
Posted: January 2, 2011
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Yes, do not use those options.
Posted: May 11, 2011
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Posted: December 13, 2011 (Global Reply)
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