Cron jobs

Cron jobs run commands on a schedule as your own user, from your home directory. Manage them on the Cron page (up to 20 jobs); crontab -e over SSH is disabled so that the panel stays the single source of truth.

Adding a job

A job has a schedule (five standard cron fields), a command, an optional comment, and can be disabled without deleting it.

minute  hour  day-of-month  month  day-of-week
*/15    *     *             *      *              every 15 minutes
0       3     *             *      *              daily at 03:00
30      2     *             *      1              Mondays at 02:30
0,20,40 *     *             *      *              three times an hour

The minute field must be spaced at least 5 minutes apart: */5 or larger steps, a single value, or a list of values that are 5 or more apart. * and ranges in the minute field are rejected. The other fields accept the full standard syntax.

Commands are a single line of at most 1024 bytes. Examples:

/usr/bin/php /home/acme/public_html/cron.php
/usr/bin/php /home/acme/public_html/wp-cron.php >/dev/null 2>&1
/usr/bin/curl -s https://example.com/tasks/run

Use absolute paths for programs and files; php resolves to the server's default CLI version (/usr/bin/php8.3 selects a specific one).

Output

By default output is discarded (MAILTO=""). Set MAILTO on the Cron page to one of your own mailboxes to receive each job's output by email. Redirect output to a file (>> /home/acme/cron.log 2>&1) if you prefer.

Jobs stop running while the account is suspended and resume afterwards.