Hi HN,<p>I'm building an app and thinking of using phpfog as my hosting provider but they lack cron job features so I was wondering if anyone had any experience with cron jobs as a service providers?<p>What I need it for is to update and cache rankings every 5 minutes instead of every page execution.<p>I was hoping anyone had any experience they could share, also preferrable free but willing to pay a monthly fee but would rather not pay per cron execution as I hope to run this cron every 5minutes<p>Thanks a lot
Discussion and links from 5 days ago: <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3560750" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3560750</a><p>A free DIY alternative is a micro instance on Amazon EC2, or even a small server in your home (Tonido Plug would be excellent for this, and uses only 3 watts of power). There's always the option of a cheap VPS as well.