How to host a cronjob in 2022

Modal, although I’m still on the waitlist
fly.io, but I need to provide a Dockerfile and a schedule
Github Actions, but I would need to a) create a repo for no reason, create a workflow, and keep committing to that repo
If you are comfortable using AWS, You could us AWS Batch (free) with Spot Fargate jobs with Cloudwatch cron as the trigger . You only pay for the vcpu hours your job consumes https://aws.amazon.com/fargate/pricing/ , it’s a set it up once and forget it model.
“I’m not sure what you mean when you say there is no easy solution… procure a small vm on Linode or your choice of provider for like $20/mo. SSH into it, set up the crontab to run your web scraping script. I could literally have that set up and running in 15 minutes flat.”
- LMAO
https://workers.cloudflare.com/
GCP Cloud Run with a schedule set to call the HTTP endpoint once an hour.
Linux DigitalOcean server
cron-job.org, but it needs me to already have an HTTP endpoint
render.com
https://airplane.dev <— this is the one that I’m going to try
Raspberry PI! This would be cool to try sometime
Retool workflows - Retool Workflows
https://repeat.dev.
Wow, there’s so many tools in this workspace

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February 22, 2023