Cron Job Run Time Predictions

Hi everyone,

We recently released a new feature in our application: Predicting cron jobs' run times.

As you can see in our example page, once your added a cron job and enable the "Logs and Predictions", you will see latest logs in the past and run time predictions in the nearest future for the cron job (Log and prediction number depend on the plan quota. You can also configure them in the cron job "Logs and Predictions" panel).

We believe that by seeing when will your cron job run, you will be more sure how to set the cron job correctly.

Just play it around and let us know your suggestion if you have any.

Cron job number limit removed

After deep investigation, we found that abuse mainly came from API, so we decide to remove the number limit on cron job, and keep the limit on API request, but adjust the quota to:

Free: Max 100 daily API requests
Starter: Max 1000 daily API requests
Plus: Max 2000 daily API requests
Max: Max 5000 daily API requests

Hope that our users will enjoy the change, you can set up unlimited cron job again now!

Service plans updated

We recently updated our service plans for the purpose of optimizing our system performance, improving stability and fighting abuse.

Two main updates to our service plans are:

1. Adding cron job quota to each plan as following:

Free: Max 5 active cron jobs
Starter: Max 50 active cron jobs
Plus: Max 200 active cron jobs
Max: Max 500 active cron jobs

2. Adding API request daily quota to plans as following:

Free: Max 10 daily API requests
Starter: Max 200 daily API requests
Plus: Max 400 daily API requests
Max: Max 1000 daily API requests

You may see details of these updates at https://www.easycron.com/pricing.

Cron job can be run manually

We just added a feature to EasyCron.com. This feature allows user to run cron job manually by clicking on the URL link in the cron job list .

Manually triggered cron job is run from EasyCron's server, so in your website's log, you will still see the IP/agent of EasyCron.com.

In the popped up page of manually-run cron job, you can see statistics information such as start time, connect Time, done time, total execution time, HTTP status code and the output of the cron job. These information will help you check if everything is good with your cron job.

In order to prevent abuse, every user only has a quota of 20 times to manually run the cron jobs in one day.