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<p>WordPress’s built in cron system is clever, but notoriously unreliable. <a href="https://deadmanssnitch.com" rel="nofollow ugc">Dead Man’s Snitch</a> is a great service for monitoring any sort of scheduled task, and is a simple way to make sure that your WordPress cron jobs are working properly. If WP-Cron isn’t working properly, WordPress might not be updating itself regularly, scheduled posts may turn up late or not at all, and other features you count on might not work.</p>
<p>This plugin simply allows you to store your Snitch URL in the WordPress admin, and requests it once per hour. If Dead Man’s Snitch doesn’t hear from WordPress when it expects to, it’ll send you an email notification.</p>


WP Dead Man’s Snitch

WordPress's built in cron system is clever, but notoriously unreliable.

EasyCron

<p>EasyCron (https://www.easycron.com) provides reliable online cron job service worldwide. Its insanely easy-to-use webcron have helped thousands of users who’re fastidious on task scheduling perfectly configure cron jobs.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Support Cron expression, and the year field (<a href="https://www.easycron.com/faq/What-cron-expression-does-easycron-support" rel="nofollow ugc">cron expression guide</a>)</li>
<li>Email otifications</li>
<li>Slack notifications</li>
<li>Webhook callbacks</li>
<li>Cron job execution logs</li>
<li>Time prediction of executions.</li>
<li>Customize schedule timezone</li>
</ul>
<h3>Questions & Answers</h3>
<h4>Is EasyCron free?</h4>
<p>EasyCron offers a free forever plan (you just need to go to https://www.easycron.com/user/plan to renew the free plan monthly).<br />
You may also upgrade to a premium plan which has some advanced features and will automatically get renewed yearly.</p>


Easycron

Utilize EasyCron's API to configure a cron job that will trigger WordPress's cron script (wp-cron.php) periodically.

WP Dead Man’s Snitch vs Easycron