What is Marathon?

Article Id
kb203
Published
12 Sep 2014 at 12 Sep 2014
Last Updated
02 Feb 2017 at 02 Feb 2017

Marathon is an advanced website task scheduling service from Calzada Media. It is used to call specific website address according to a predefined and customisable schedule.

What can it do?

A Marathon task will call a specific website address of Url according to a predefined scheduled. The available schedule options are:

  • Repetively
    • Example: a task that runs every 30 minutes
  • Day of week (i.e. Monday, Tuesday etc) at specific times
    • E.g. Task that runs every Friday at 18:00 - ideal for end of week reports
  • Day of month (e.g. 1st, 2nd, 25th) at specific times
    • Example: A task that runs on the 7th day of the month at 12:00
  • Last Day of Month
    • Example: a task that runs at 14:00 on the last day of the month

Availability

Marathon is only available to Calzada Media customers with an active web hosting package. Each package has a maximum number of Marathon tasks available.

Marathon tasks cannot be configured through the Hosting Control Panel. To request a task, contact support for information about availability.

     
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