WsScheduler.com is the solution to your scheduling problems on a web server with no access to scheduling utilities such as cron or at. It's easy to use. Just login and add the URL of the web service and the time you would like the service to run and Web Service Scheduler will take care of the rest.
Here are a few ideas of tasks you could schedule using an online scheduling service.
- Perform a regular backups of critical system or user data
- Generate a regular custom report for administrators or users
- Email a weekly newsletter
- Purge or archive old data from the database (i.e. expired articles, logs)
- Disable accounts that have not paid, violated rules, overused resources, etc.
- Regular testing and maintenance (link check, page validation, feed validation, etc.)
- B2B transfers (update product lists, new accounts, pricing)
- Post daily web links to a blog or other RSS/ATOM feed
- Update website content such as the latest news, user upload lists, "Top 10" lists, submitted information, etc.
# posted by Blip @ 2:11 PM