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Cronless gives you free cron jobs to execute PHP scripts on your website at predetermined times. Our service simulates a Linux cron job through our website and calls your script at a scheduled time. Cron Jobs refer to a Linux scheduling service called "crontab".

Cron jobs are used for two main reasons: First, you want to automate something you do often or infrequently so you don't forget. Second, you might have a CPU intensive script or program to run and you want to do it when site traffic is low. This service isn't always available on web hosting providers, and furthermore is a real headache to configure.

If you don't have cron on your hosting account or don't want to write a crontab entry, then Cronless is your answer!

What PHP Cron Job Could I Run?

Our free cron job service lets you:

• Perform automatic updates inside of a game, a forum, or website
• Schedule Tweets at a future time
• Run database backups
• Generate monthly invoices
• Do cleanup tasks on a site
• Update an RSS feed
• Pretty much anything you can write in PHP

Site Monitoring - Cronless Pro Accounts

What is it worth to you to know when your website went down? Would you like it sent to you via SMS, mere MOMENTS after it happens? How about when your email servers stop responding? Cronless offers a premium monitoring service where we can alert you if your site is offline, via SMS, email or IM, moments after it goes offline. Our site monitoring also offers uptime percentage and outage count, along with a website badge you can post to brag to your customers about your reliability.

What Others Are Saying About Cronless:
Before I discovered Cronless, I kept messing around for days trying to get the cronjobs on my hosting account to work. And when all was set I started thinking, what if my site goes down, how will I be notified?

Thats where I needed Cronless to do the monitoring for me. Easy to configure, and always there when you need it.

-Kevin W, satisfied Cronless Pro User