[OzzyOsbourne]

> "if cron fails completely"

How often does this happen, and why? If this problem is inherent to cron, are there alternatives that are [possibly] better suited to server work?

[adrianpike]

Cron's probably the wrong term to use there - the failures I usually see are on the code or environment side, and usually it's a PITA to try and refire missed cron events once you fix the bugs.