Frequently Asked Questions

There is a web service that many of our members have been able to use successfully, www.webcron.org, that will enable you to set up periodic requests for a page on your site. By making that page a script, you can achieve the same effect. Note that this service now charges a few dollars per year as of October 2008.

We do not presently support this feature ourselves, because our shared hosting environment is highly dynamic, meaning that when no one is looking at your site, it "isn't there." This means that there is nowhere for cron to run. We do plan to add a similar feature in the future, but until we do, we are very grateful to webcron.org for offering this free service.

While we allow limited usage of this nature, please remember that our service is not designed for continuous automated access, and we take a dim view of excessive resource usage. Please exercise good judgment in your use of this type of automation.

As of October 2008, we are aware that webcron is no longer offering their free service to new users. We are working on an alternative and will post more information on our blog as soon as it is available.