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Scheduling 30 Second Cron Jobs

Tuesday, August 9th, 2011

Today we released a new Cronless update that allows premium members to schedule cron jobs to run every 30 seconds (twice per minute.)
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Minor Interface Tweaks

Saturday, July 16th, 2011

We did some minor interface and settings tweaks this week:
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Displaying The Translation Box

Tuesday, June 21st, 2011

You can now show or hide the translation drop down list using the Display Translation Box option in the Settings page. The drop down list will be displayed at the top right corner of each page while logged in. The translation is powered by Google Translate and supports more than 50 languages.

Bug Fixes and Updates

Monday, March 14th, 2011

A few members complained that cron jobs did not execute properly when the scripts being called printed specific HTML tags. This includes members using MailBeez. We fixed this and now the scripts being called will work properly regardless of its output. Other minor bug fixes are the date and time displayed in the jobs list and the Lost Password response page.

We also added sorting (by clicking on the column headers) to the jobs and monitors tables. And we fixed some design issues (press Ctrl + F5 to see it) like font size and margin settings.

Please let us know if you find anything out of sorts.

User Interface Updates

Tuesday, March 16th, 2010

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.

Cronless has a new host and new server

Friday, February 12th, 2010

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 Moving to a New Server

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

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.

Happy New Year from Cronless

Thursday, December 31st, 2009

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!

Eight Crazy Ways To Notify You

Monday, December 14th, 2009

Cronless now has eight ways to notify you when your free cron jobs are executing:

  • Email (default)
  • SMS
  • IM (MSN, Yahoo, GTalk and AIM)
  • Twitter

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.

Eight Million Jobs!

Friday, November 6th, 2009

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!