Cron as a service
Cron as a service: hosted cron jobs for your app
Running your own cron means a machine that must stay up, a crontab someone has to remember, and no alert when it quietly stops. Cron as a service moves the schedule off your infrastructure entirely. Cronmint hosts your cron jobs, runs them on time, and tells you when they fail — so a rebuilt server or a bad deploy can never silently take your schedule down with it.
Why move cron off your own box
- A single server holding your crontab is a single point of failure.
- A rebuild or migration can drop the crontab with no warning.
- System cron has no alerting — a failed or missed job is silent.
- Every project reinventing its own scheduler is wasted effort.
What Cronmint hosts for you
Each cron job is a URL plus a schedule. Cronmint owns the timing, calls your endpoint, retries on failure, keeps a searchable history of runs, and alerts you by email or Slack when something goes wrong. Your app just needs to expose an endpoint to be called.
Keep your own runner if you prefer
Cron as a service and self-hosted cron are not mutually exclusive. If a job must run inside your own environment, keep running it there and use Cronmint’s heartbeat side to monitor it — you get the same logs and alerts without moving the job.
Move your cron jobs to Cronmint free
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Start freeFrequently asked questions
What is cron as a service?
A hosted service that stores and runs your cron jobs instead of your own server. You provide a URL and a schedule; the service handles execution, retries, logging, and alerting.
How is it more reliable than system cron?
The schedule no longer depends on one machine staying up, and you get retries plus alerts on failures and missed runs — none of which plain crontab provides.
Can I still run some jobs myself?
Yes. Run whatever needs to stay in your environment and monitor it with a Cronmint heartbeat, while Cronmint hosts the rest.