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Scheduled jobs run your backups, invoices, feeds and emails, and they fail silently. We set them up correctly, log their output, alert you when one fails, and fix the ones that stopped running.
What’s included
System and user crontabs
cPanel / Plesk cron jobs
WP-Cron replaced with a real cron
Laravel scheduler
Magento cron
Python and shell scripts
Output logging
Email or chat alert on failure
Overlap prevention (flock)
Environment variables
Time-zone-aware schedules
Cron audit and clean-up
How it works
AuditExisting jobs listed, with what they do and whether they actually run.
FixBroken paths, permissions and environments corrected.
Set upNew jobs scheduled with logging.
ProtectLocks prevent overlapping runs.
AlertYou’re told when a job fails, not weeks later.
Service FAQ
Cron runs with a minimal environment: different PATH, user and working directory. We fix the job so it runs reliably.
On busy or very quiet sites, yes: a real server cron is more reliable. We set it up properly.
Yes. Each job can report success, and you get an alert if it fails or doesn’t run.
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