# Using cron jobs on a shared web service

**URL:** <https://forum.mautic.org/t/using-cron-jobs-on-a-shared-web-service/34827>\
**Category:** Product Support\
**Created:** [January 23, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/using-cron-jobs-on-a-shared-web-service/34827 "2025-01-23T11:07:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![fpuser](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/fpuser/32/12860_2.png) [@fpuser](https://forum.mautic.org/u/fpuser)\
**Post date:** [January 23, 2025, 11:07am UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/using-cron-jobs-on-a-shared-web-service/34827/1 "2025-01-23T11:07:17Z")

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**Your software**  
My Mautic version is: 5.2.1  
My PHP version is: 8.3  
My Database type and version is: MariaDB 10.11

**Your problem**  
My problem is: I installed Mautic on a shared web service, as this is the most convenient way for the use I’ll give to Mautic. This shared web service does not give me a console to configure cron jobs, and it does not have cpanel, but it gives me an option to create on a web interface, but in this case it asks me for an “HTTP GET” URL to setup the cron job, and I don’t know what to put there.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/uploads/mautic/original/2X/2/22ffe6a34b2e7affe6154b4ff12637a7c9e593fb.png)  
Also it looks like this is limited to running the job once a day, but I’ll ask if it can be configured on shorter intervals.  
If this can’t be done, I would like to know if there’s a way to manually run the tasks from Mautic itself, as I don’t care to do it manually, as building my own private server only for Mautic it’s not worth the effort for me.

These errors are showing in the log:

Steps I have tried to fix the problem:

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**Author:** ![mneumann](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex020/user_avatar/forum.mautic.org/mneumann/32/2512_2.png) [@mneumann](https://forum.mautic.org/u/mneumann)\
**Post date:** [January 26, 2025, 11:32pm UTC](https://forum.mautic.org/t/using-cron-jobs-on-a-shared-web-service/34827/2 "2025-01-26T23:32:31Z")

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I dont think there is a public link to run the console tasks, since that would be a security threat. So if you cannot run a php bin/console command, you are out of luck. Making it manually would mean to log in to a SSH connection and run the command, and I doubt that your provider is offering that.

I was running Mautic for a while on Siteground, since this is a hosting provider with more flexibility, but it is not the recommended approach, and I was reaching my limits there with database size etc. So get a VPS for $5 and start playing there.