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Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?

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Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?

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Post by ryandrake »

akerl_ wrote: post #150
fourseventy wrote: post #137

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. EDIT: after reading the other solutions in this thread I'm blown away by how much people are over thinking and over engineering this. KISS people.

It's reasonable to call this the "easiest" way. It's certainly not the "cheapest, easiest" way, which is what the poster asked for. Many of the other options listed in this thread are free or within a rounding error of free. Some of them equally are not the "cheapest, easiest" because they're complex. But some of them pretty clearly meet both criteria (GitHub Actions comes to mind), and some of them might meet the cr…

The way I look at it: If you have an existing VPS already hosting things (and what geek doesn't?) then adding a cronjob to that host incrementally costs essentially $0 and is pretty much the easiest thing you can do.

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?

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Post by lamontcg »

fourseventy wrote: post #137

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. EDIT: after reading the other solutions in this thread I'm blown away by how much people are over thinking and over engineering this. KISS people.

Why is running a single cloud VM in 2022 so terrifying?

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?

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Post by akerl_ »

ryandrake wrote: post #151
akerl_ wrote: post #150

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's reasonable to call this the "easiest" way. It's certainly not the "cheapest, easiest" way, which is what the poster asked for. Many of the other options listed in this thread are free or within a rounding error of free. Some of them equally are not the "cheapest, easiest" because they're complex. But some of them pretty clearly meet both criteria (GitHub Actions comes to mind), and some of them might meet the cr…

The way I look at it: If you have an existing VPS already hosting things (and what geek doesn't?) then adding a cronjob to that host incrementally costs essentially $0 and is pretty much the easiest thing you can do.

Just to say it out loud: there are plenty of geeks w/o a VPS, either because they hack on things that don't generally need a server (like hardware, or radio, or any number of other geek pursuits) or because they've historically used local gear for their compute tasks.

If you have a VPS, I agree, adding a cronjob to it is both cheap and easy. But it's silly to assume that anybody who is a geek has a VPS already.

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?

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Post by maxchehab »

I find the meta implications on this thread quite interesting:

How cheap can you run this cron job, the basics:

- 8,765 invocations a year

- Lambda: $0.20 per 1M requests

- Cloudwatch Events: $1.00 per 1M requests

$1.2 / 1,000,000 * 8,765 = About 1 cent

Is anybody going to host that as a service for this price? Absolutely not.

Re: Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronjob in 2022?

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Post by andscoop »

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