Pick a schedule, get the cron string and a plain-English explanation. Paste it into crontab on your server.
A cron line is five fields: minute hour day-of-month month day-of-week, then the command. * means "every". Edit your crontab with crontab -e. On a VPS with full root you can schedule backups, bots, scrapers and more; our managed panels also include scheduled tasks. Keeping a Discord bot alive instead? See running a bot 24/7.
Straight answers.
minute (0-59), hour (0-23), day of month (1-31), month (1-12), day of week (0-6, Sun=0) — followed by the command to run.
Run crontab -e on your server, paste the line, save. List jobs with crontab -l.
'Every 5' — so */5 in the minute field runs every 5 minutes.
Yes — a full-root VPS lets you use crontab directly, and our panels include scheduled tasks for backups and restarts.
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