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!
Several minor bugs have been fixed, some small site tweaks have been done, and the PayPal integration has been vastly improved. We now have TWO levels of subscriptions you can sign up for:
$19/year gets you the Power Level, with 5 cron jobs executing as often as one/minute.
$27/year gets you the Pro Level with unlimited cron jobs and unlimited site monitoring.
You can also update your password after a system reset from the Settings tab.
Happy Cron Jobs!
Been working hard…Cronless now has a new look and feel, a logo, a feedback tab, and a new tour.
Let me know what you’d like to see with the Feedback tab on the right of every page on the site.
Happy cron-ing.
Site Monitoring is now more advanced. Alowing you to specify the port to listen to. It logs errors and what type of error. It checks both Port and DNS.
If you on the site from around 11pm-1am PST you will notice a higher load than average, that is due to server update and backups. There is no need to be alarmed by this, its normal.
There are now three levels of notification:
I hope this is useful to someone.
Jobs are working at 100% now. The only thing to implement in the backend would be HTTP authentication and email notifaction.