pschlan/cron-job.org

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

The open-source codebase behind cron-job.org, a self-hosted web service for scheduling and executing HTTP-based cron jobs. It consists of a C++ scheduler daemon (chronos) that fetches jobs from MySQL and performs thousands of parallel HTTP requests, plus a PHP API, web frontend, and status page.

Use cases

• schedule recurring http requests to urls
• self-host a cron job triggering service
• ping websites on a schedule to keep them awake
• run scheduled webhooks from a web dashboard
• monitor endpoint uptime with a status page
• distribute scheduled http jobs across multiple nodes

When to choose

• you want a hosted-style cron scheduler you control yourself
• you need to trigger URLs or webhooks on a minute-level schedule at scale
• you want a web UI plus API for managing scheduled HTTP jobs and viewing execution history

When to avoid

• you need local shell command cron jobs rather than HTTP requests
• you require strict durability of job execution history, which is optimized for performance over integrity
• you want a simple single-binary scheduler without a web frontend or database setup

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scheduling http-client web-framework api-framework monitoring self-hosted web-development developer-tools self-hosted cpp php cron-jobs http-ping web-scheduler status-page distributed-nodes thrift-protocol sqlite mysql automation linux web-server docker

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