Server status June 12 2007

Hi everyone,

We are experiencing a temporary problem with our server and should be up shortly.
The current time is 9:42am EST.

Thank you,
George
Web Based Cron

WebBasedCron Mailing List

Hi everyone,

A WebBasedCron mailing list has been created to facilitate an open discussion with you, our users. I’ll use the mailing list to send information about outages or problems (hopefully there will be no more). I encourage all of you to subscribe to the list, ask questions, suggest enhancements and together we can make this great service better.

Thanks,
George
Web Based Cron

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Server back up 5pm EST

Hi everyone,

Sorry again for the downtime today. We are again experiencing problems with our ISP. We will be back up today by 5pm. We will definitely look into contingency plans to make sure future outages are minimized.

Sorry for any trouble,
George
Web Based Cron

Update on Server Status

Hi everyone,

Today (April 20 2007) we had about 8 hours of downtime. We had an issue with our ISP Bell Canada Business.  Everything is back up and running.

Sorry for any trouble,
George
WebBasedCron

2 years old, going on 3..

This past November we celebrated our second birthday.
The journey has been great and we look forward to serving you for years to come.

All the best,
George
Web Based Cron

A great way to never have your PHP script fail

Hi everyone,

A little while ago I wrote a post about how to prevent your cron job from failing. A comment was posted suggesting the use of the PHP function ignore_user_abort(true). This is a great idea; anyone who is running a PHP script should put this:

ignore_user_abort(true);

as the first line in their script. This way, if your script takes longer than 60 seconds, and WebBasedCron closes the connection, the script will continue to run on your server.

Thanks,
George
WebBasedCron

Feature requests for wbc?

Hi everyone,

Nothing is more important to us than making sure our customers are happy.  Many of the additions to WebBasedCron over the past year have come from our users suggestions.  If you would like to see something added, please send us your thoughts.  The best way for us to get better, is to let us know what you think.

Thanks,
WebBasedCron

Temporary Problem Fixed

Hi everyone,

Due to a slight miss-configuration, cron jobs were not running from approximately 18:00 to 23:00 EST.  This issue has been resolved.

We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.
WebBasedCron

No more cron jobs deleted!

Hi everyone,

Each cron job has a max number of times it can fail before it’s deleted by the cron service. By default this number is 100. We’ve been getting requests to have the cron job turn off, rather than delete it. That makes perfect sense and now it will!

Plus, you can turn your cron jobs on and off yourselves. Login to the members area to see.

Thanks,
WebBasedCron

Verify your email is up to date

Hi everyone,

Please make sure that your email is up to date in our database. Login to your account and under the important notes, verify that your email is correct. If it has changed, please contact us to change it.

Thanks,
WebBasedCron