We did some tweaks and fixes to the website to improve its speed and usability. The most noticeable is the new homepage for logged in users. It now lists the account details and the latest news instead of the account types. Plus users now get redirected to the homepage when they log in and not the jobs page. And a link to the upgrade page was added to the menu in case you want to check it out 
Please let us know what you think.
The move has been completed and we’re back up, 100%. Downtime was minimized (approximately 10 min total) and all cron jobs have been transferred.
I’ve worked with a few people to deal with some minor bugs, but everything seems to be in place. Please let me know if you find anything out of sorts.
Cronless will be moving to a new VPS server shortly.
There has been difficulty with the reliability of mail and the DNS being blacklisted because this particular host seems to have some other less-than-desirable sites hosted there.
I will make the move in such a way that the jobs will be transferred, the site will be in “maintenance mode” preventing job changes for no more than 48 hours while the DNS change takes place.
Thanks for your patience.
We hope you and your families have a prosperous, wonderful, safe and healthy New Year.
Thanks to everyone for all your support in 2009. We’re looking forward to a great 2010 with you and all the new folks who sign up for free cron jobs.
If you like our service, tell your friends to run their PHP cron jobs here too!
Cronless now has eight ways to notify you when your free cron jobs are executing:
In addition, site monitoring now has the ability to override the notification, so you can just watch your sites without being notified, or only get notified after 5, 10, or 15 consecutive failures. That way you get only the serious failures and not the random network glitches that cause false alarms.
Take the new cron job tour and find out why Cronless is the best service out there.
Cronless has now crossed the 8 million job threshold. That means Cronless has processed almost 1 job every 2 seconds for the past eight months straight!
Thanks for making Cronless a successful free cron job service!
Coming soon! A new feature will be available for you: The ability to receive TWEETS for Job failures.
And even better, you’ll be able to receive various IM notifications (Yahoo, GTalk, and AIM) in addition to MSN.
Just another reason to upgrade to Premium for Cronless.
The past week was a frustrating one for me. Cronless was bounced around inside my ISP to a new VPS server. The end result is all good now, but there was some time where emails were NOT going out notifying you about your jobs because of configuration changes. The jobs ran, but no notices appeared. My apologies to everyone for that. The problem has been fixed and we’re moving forward again.
It’s quite possible that you may get timeouts when your PHP cron job runs. If that happens, place this at the top of your script
<?php
set_time_limit(0); //0 = run forever
?>
This will allow your script to run to completion, ignoring timeouts. Jobs executed here at Cronless are run under this directive, but your own web server may timeout if you fail to put that in as well!
If you find that this isn’t enough and you still get timeouts (some hosts are disabling this PHP function), you can help by limiting your script output as much as possible. (less than 4kb is ideal)
Our recent survey has come back with some great feedback, including:
Well, you spoke and we’re listening. These features are being implemented in the coming weeks. Keep your eye out for changes!