Good news for those who are looking to find free hosted cron job website, I just the website for you. http://cronjob.de, is a German website which offers you free cronjob services for your website.

The downside is your cron job script must be accessible via web (it supports web cron job only) and to avoid server busy, your cronjob can only be executed by 5 minute apart as opposed to 1 minute in normal cronjob. Another note, the website is in German only, so hope you can cope with the german language when using cronjob.de.

For a free service, this is a bargain because I’ve came across websites that offers hosted cron service with a fee of USD10-USD120 per year!

But as for me, I prefer to use cron from my shell to execute automated tasks. If you are hosting a website, ask your webhosting provider for a shell and makes sure there REALLY supports cron, it makes your life far more easier.

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