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 CRON is a service provided by most hosting solutions – including **Godaddy, Dreamhost, Hostgator**, etc... that allows you to run scheduled jobs that perform regular cleanups, backups or other scripts that need to run from time to time.\\
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-==== Why would you need that?====
+==== Why do you need a CRON Job? ====
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 PHP is running only when users are visiting your site. You have no guarantee that at a specific time there will be an instance of PHP running on your web server. This is why you have to ensure this through running at specific times the needed PHP script.
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+CRON jobs are tasks that run at scheduled times, where usually this is a service offered by the hosting provider. These tasks make sure that certain extension tasks run at a specific time.
+ This way you make sure that for instance your users get the notifications about upcoming expiring auctions or information regarding their watchlists.
+CRON jobs are required to keep an extension working properly. For detailed information about what each component needs a CRON for, check the detailed link at the bottom of this article.
 ==== Which "thePHPfactory" Extensions need Cron jobs?====