▸ EXTERNAL CRON SERVICE
Scheduled Tasks That Actually Run — Every Single Time
Stop babysitting your cron jobs. Set them up once, and let reliable infrastructure handle the rest.
Want to see it in action first? View the documentation
▸ THE PROBLEM
The silent killer of side projects and production apps alike.
You’ve set up a cron job. It worked for a while. Then your server restarted, your host throttled background processes, or a task silently stopped running and nobody noticed for three days. By the time you found out, users were affected, data was stale, and you were scrambling.
Unreliable scheduled tasks are one of those problems that seems small — until it isn’t.
A better way to schedule HTTP tasks.
External Cron Service takes your recurring HTTP requests — health checks, scheduler triggers, webhook pings, data syncs — and runs them from dedicated infrastructure that exists for exactly this purpose. You tell it what to hit, how often, and what to do when something goes wrong. It handles the rest, across multiple execution nodes, with automatic retries, real-time alerting, and a full audit trail.
No agents to install. No SSH keys to manage. Just URLs and schedules.
▸ HOW IT WORKS FOR YOU
Built for reliability, not just scheduling.
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Rock-Solid Execution, Not Just Scheduling
Most cron tools are really just schedulers. They set a timer and hope your server cooperates. External Cron Service runs your tasks from purpose-built execution nodes — distributed, redundant, and designed to keep going even when one node drops offline. If a node goes down, your jobs are automatically picked up by another. You don’t have to think about it.
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Flexible Scheduling That Fits Your Workflow
Run tasks every minute, every hour, or once a week at a specific time — whatever your application needs. Whether it’s a quick health check every 60 seconds or a weekly report trigger on Monday mornings, you configure it in seconds and move on with your day.
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Full Control Over Every Request
GET, POST, PUT, DELETE, PATCH, HEAD — all supported. Add custom headers, send JSON or form-encoded bodies, set per-job timeouts, and choose your timezone. If your API expects it, External Cron Service can send it. No dumbed-down “URL ping” limitations.
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Smart Retries That Don't Waste Your Time
When a request fails, the service retries automatically with configurable delays. But it’s not blindly persistent — client errors (4xx responses) won’t trigger unnecessary retries, because the issue is on the other end. Server errors and timeouts? Those get retried until the job succeeds or the threshold is reached.
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Alerts That Tell You What Matters
Get notified by email when a job starts failing — after a threshold you set, not on every hiccup. And when it recovers, you’ll get a follow-up so you know you’re back in the green. Want to pipe events into your own systems? Add a webhook URL and receive signed payloads with every failure and recovery event.
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Complete Execution History at Your Fingertips
Every run is logged with its status code, response time, and which node executed it. Filter, browse, and export your logs whenever you need them. When something goes wrong at 2 AM, the answer is already waiting for you in the morning.
▸ WHAT PEOPLE ARE SAYING
“We replaced three different cron monitoring tools with this. The retry logic alone saved us from a dozen false-alarm incidents last quarter.”
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“I set up our WordPress cron and two API health checks in about five minutes. Haven’t thought about them since — which is exactly the point.”
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“The webhook notifications integrate perfectly into our Slack alerting pipeline. When a job fails, the right team knows within seconds.”
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▸ THE BOTTOM LINE
What you're leaving on the table without it.
Every hour you spend debugging missed cron executions, manually checking if your scheduled tasks ran, or recovering from silent failures is an hour you’re not building your product. External Cron Service doesn’t just automate scheduling — it removes an entire category of operational anxiety. The kind where you wake up wondering if that nightly sync actually ran. It did.
Start scheduling in minutes.
Create your first cron job in under a minute. Pick a URL, choose an interval, and you’re running.
Want to see it in action first? View the documentation for a full walkthrough.
Your cron jobs deserve better than “probably running.”