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Scheduled Commands
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Written by Matt Gray
Updated over a year ago

Scheduling a bit of code to run at specific times is a common requirement of most projects. With VPS services, you would SSH into your server and configure "cron jobs".

Servd make this a bit easier by allowing you to add "Scheduled Commands" directly in the dashboard:

  1. Navigate to the "Scheduled Craft CLI Commands" section in your project's Staging or Production Commands page.

  2. You should see all your active scheduled commands. To add a new one, input the command you'd like to run and the cron schedule pattern into the inputs under "Add a Command".

  3. Click the "Add button".

  4. When you're ready, sync your project to deploy the scheduled command to your environment.

Command Types

Servd offers two types of scheduled commands:

  • `./craft` console commands.

  • `wget` commands to make a web request to a specified URL.

Note: with both types you don't need to specify `./craft` or `wget` as part of your command body.

Good To Know

  • The schedule pattern follows the widely-adopted crontab syntax.

  • Commands can run at most once per 5 minutes.

  • Scheduling times run against the UTC timezone.

  • The number of scheduled commands you can have active at one time depends on your plan.

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