Webcron

What Webcron is

Webcron is a cloud service for scheduling web-accessible scripts and monitoring servers, websites, and routers. Jobs can run once or on a schedule as often as every minute, with timeout options up to one hour. Users can choose notifications when jobs succeed or fail. Monitoring checks whether targets are reachable from more than one location and supports HTTP, HTTPS, FTP, and ping, with intervals from 1 to 60 minutes. Monitors can compare page content, look for a specified string, and send custom request headers. Webcron lists monitoring stations in locations including the United States, Japan, Singapore, Ireland, Brazil, Germany, France, South Korea, and Australia. Its API communicates directly with the Webcron engine, with documented methods for jobs and monitors; a PHP class for API connections is stated to support PHP 5.0 and later. There is no free plan, though a 14-day trial is offered. Listed charges include €0.00 per launch for a 180-second cron timeout, €0.25 per launch for 3600 seconds, €0.01 per email alert, and €0.15 per SMS alert. Monitoring can be tested free for one week or until credits are used up.