Scheduled tasks (also known as CRON jobs) can be setup in your Control Panel. This feature allows you to enable a program to run automatically on the server, you can set your program to run every hour, daily, weekly or monthly. We allow up to 3 CRON jobs per account, a CRON job cannot be run more than once an hour maximum.
To setup a scheduled task simply log into your Control Panel, select ‘Web Tools’ and follow the instructions for ‘Scheduled Tasks’.
As a follow-up to this, I feel that I should point out that nothing precludes the scenario where you use the same script in multiple CRON jobs. By this I mean that, for e.g, you can run the same script up to three times an hour by filling in each CRON job with the same path but with differing times to run. This enables you to run the same task at more regular intervals, but will use up more slots in the CRON system.
As an example, our main site’s CRON system has the same script set to run at 20 minute intervals. This script emulates the standard wordpress wp-cron system, which wouldn’t normally work on our servers due to the “loopback problem”.
Another addition to this, users must note that we do not allow permanent processes on any hosting account.
However, you are free to run long running scripts and anything else you like on a Dedicated server.