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Tips, tutorials, and insights about cron job monitoring and DevOps best practices

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Crontab / Best Practices 8 minutes

Handling Timezone Issues in Cron Jobs (2025 Guide)

Cron runs in server time, not your business time. Learn why DST causes jobs to run twice or never, and how to build timezone-aware scheduling that works across countries.

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Use Cases / Best Practices 8 minutes

How to effectively monitor regular backups.

Your database backup has been running every night for months. Then disaster strikes, and you discover backups stopped working 3 weeks ago. Here's how to add proper monitoring to your backup scripts so you never face this nightmare.

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Crontab/Linux 8 minutes

Cron Job Ran But Failed Silently - How to Debug

You check your server logs. The cron job ran. No errors. Everything looks fine at first. Except... the database backup wasn't created. The emails weren't sent. Welcome to every developer's favorite nightmare: the silent cron failure.

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2025-12-07 Tutorial

Common Cron Job Failures and How to Fix Them

Discover the 7 most common reasons why cron jobs fail and learn practical solutions to fix them. A comprehensive troubleshooting guide for developers and DevOps engineers.

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