17: Where Do I Start?
Self-Hosted
The Power of Self-Hosting a Cron Job
The way it works is really simple. You have your normal cron job as you normally would and then curl to a specific URL. That URL contains a token in it which health checks knows is your token. And if it doesn't receive that ping within a certain time frame, you know, a week could be every day, whatever you configure it to,. It will then send you an email and say, hey, this cron job is down. The special sauce might be the interface to configure all of this. I think it's really useful because for me, it has to be somewhere that I am actively checking every day for me to see it.
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