Cron job are getting more common and allow you to perform some really useful scheduling task. Hostgator shared hosting come with cron job feature, and you can add cron job through your cpanel control panel.
“Crontab is a process in Unix systems that uses a Daemon called cron to execute commands for the user at a certain time.”
“It allows you to run commands at any time you specify. Enter the command you would like to run as well as running times.”
After reading above explaination for hostgator cron job, guess you get the idea that cron jobs is like scheduling task in windows system.
From cpanel, you can schedule the task to run every minute, hours, day, or month.
If you have a script that send out email to customer every monday, you can set the cron job to execute the script on every monday, and thus process the mailing list and sending out email to your customer.
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