Recently I had to create a cron job on a HostMonster server to run a PHP script every X minutes. If you’ve ever searched for a tutorial on how to do this, you’ll know it’s no easy thing to find. After fumbling around and failing for a while, I finally managed to work the kinks out of the job. For those interested, the method I used was: */15 * * * * /ramdisk/bin/php5 /home/—hostmonster username here—/public_html/path/to/script.php The asterisks designate time frequency of the job, in the following order: minute (0-59), hour (0-23), day (1-31), month (1-12 or jan, feb, mar, etc), weekday (0-6 where Sunday is 0 or 7 OR sun, mon, tue, etc). So mine means ‘run once every fifteen minutes’. The ‘*’ means every. If you wanted to run once an hour, it’d be ‘0 * * * *’ meaning ‘run at :00 of each new hour’. Because I want to run a PHP script, I called PHP through the shell with ‘/ramdisk/bin/php5′. Alternatively, I could’ve used [and have succesfully] ‘php’ and ‘/usr/bin/php’, but HostMo