Magento sites do require you to use cron jobs to keep your content indexed and up-to-date.
Each hosting company will require a slightly different configuration.
Magento Cron Jobs for Nexcess
If you’re hosting your Magento site with Nexcess.net, read their documentation on Magento cron jobs.
Example Magento Cron Jobs for CloudWays
This cron job configuration was recommended to us by the Cloudways.com team. We were using PHP 7.0 on this server.
Replace ************* with the path on your server:
{codecitation}*/1 * * * * php -c /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini /home/master/applications/*************/public_html/bin/magento cron:run | grep -v “Ran jobs by schedule” >> /home/master/applications/*************/public_html/var/log/magento.cron.log
*/1 * * * * php -c /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini /home/master/applications/*************/public_html/update/cron.php >> /home/master/applications/*************/public_html/var/log/update.cron.log
*/1 * * * * php -c /etc/php/7.0/fpm/php.ini /home/master/applications/*************/public_html/bin/magento setup:cron:run >>/home/master/applications/*************/public_html/var/log/setup.cron.log{/codecitation}