Online Cron Services

1. Which language would you prefer an online cron service support?

2. What is the maximum rate at which an online cron service should allow jobs to be run (i.e. how quickly should the job be able to execute again)?

3. Which of the following features do you prefer in online cron services?

	Email job results
	Execute jobs that require a username and password (basic authentication)
	Store job results online
	Custom HTTP Requests (i.e. for SOAP or other XML)
	Other

4. What is the maximum amount of time your job will require to execute?

5. What is the maximum amount of data you expect to receive back from your job (i.e. in the HTTP response)?

6. When a job is executed, how close does it need to be to the time for which it was scheduled?

	within 10 seconds
	10 to 30 seconds
	31 to 60 seconds
	1 to 5 minutes
	6 to 15 minutes
	16 to 30 minutes
	31 to 60 minutes
	1 to 24 hours
	more than 1 day is still tolerable