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Archive for March, 2009

Cron Logs

Sunday, March 15th, 2009

You can now view the last 15 requests and download the entire log file.

The data is presented in a serialized array.  When you get that, simply use the language of choice to parse the array.

MSN Notify

Wednesday, March 11th, 2009

If you are a premium member, you will now see a MSN option under settings.  You can have Cronless send you an IM when something goes wrong with a monitor.

Time Zone

Tuesday, March 10th, 2009

You can now select your time zone in the prefences tab.  Time will not show localy in all other views, this makes it eaiser than reading the 24 hour format.

Advanced Monitoring

Monday, March 9th, 2009

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.

Site Monitoring

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

Site Monitoring is now fully coded.  It checks your site every 5 seconds.  You can place a 80×15 image on your site to show uptime.

I am coding a public page to show uptime information for people just looking to get info about the site.

Premium Membership

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

We have moved to a premium membership system, there are still free account signups, and will be what a normal person would need for say a blog.   Premium just opens a few extra featurs and services.

Its going to be a one time fee of $19.99, and is on sale right now for $4.99.

Server Load

Saturday, March 7th, 2009

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.

SMS Notify

Friday, March 6th, 2009

I just finished coding the SMS notify feature.  You can select your carrier  from a list of 12.  It cover most of what the cellphone monoply has become.  This is being put up as a premium feature.

You need your 10 digit number 0123456789.

Notification Levels

Friday, March 6th, 2009

There are now three levels of notification:

  1. Never
  2. Every time a job is run
  3. Only on errors

I hope this is useful to someone.

Planned Features

Friday, March 6th, 2009

Here are a few planned features:

  • SMS (text - message) on job failure
  • Advanced TrueCron system
  • Authentication for secure jobs (where a login is required)
  • Notification Level (where and why you should receive a message from the server)

Expect to see these over the next few days.