I think the service is a cool idea, but you have people running cURL requests in a crontab? Heaven forbid something is wonky with the DNS, or your service gets

I think the service is a cool idea, but you have people running cURL requests in a crontab? Heaven forbid something is wonky with the DNS, or your service gets compromised, or any number of things and that machine is basically 100% owned! Convenience or not, I don't think I could ever bring myself to commit that crime.