Free Web Hosting Allowing Cron Jobs

Here is a list of free web page hosting sites (with freehost reviews page for each listed) where you can get free cronjobs support to run automated processes and scripts with your free hosting services. They allow you to use a Unix/Linux crontab command to schedule commands and tasks to be automatically executed periodically at defined regular intervals. The schedules modified by crontab are generally executed by a cron daemon, crond, which constantly runs in the background and checks each minute if any of the scheduled cron jobs need to be executed, and if so, executes those. The file which contains the schedule of cron entries is called a "crontab" (short for "cron table"). Some examples of using a cronjob would be for running an automatic backup script or to send a weekly or daily email to each person in a mailing list. Generally the free web hosting providers that offer cron job support also offer Cpanel control panel (free Cpanel hosting), from which you can access a cron manager (a simple web interface to the crontab program).