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.
Development Blog for Cronless.com
Cronless moved to a new VPS
October 31st, 2009Tips Creating Your Jobs
October 15th, 2009It’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)
Survey Says: Better Notifications
October 10th, 2009Our recent survey has come back with some great feedback, including:
- More options for notifications (GTalk, AIM, Yahoo)
- Send emails with clear SUCCESS/FAILURE in title (for mobile users)
- Update job setup to use a calendar widget instead of UNIX timestamp entry
Well, you spoke and we’re listening. These features are being implemented in the coming weeks. Keep your eye out for changes!
Bug fixes, PayPal integration improved!
September 28th, 2009Several 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!
Cronless has a new look!
September 18th, 2009Been 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.
Time Zone Fix
September 4th, 2009You will notice that I fixed the time zone problem, you will now see your jobs running time in your local time zone.
This does not effect the time the job will run, all jobs are based on PST/GMT -8!
Cron Logs
March 15th, 2009You 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
March 11th, 2009If 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
March 10th, 2009You 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
March 9th, 2009Site 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.