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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 dang »

earthboundkid wrote: post #200
hoherd wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The default branch on GitHub has been main for over 2 years. https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-01-the-default-branch-...

I thought the change from "master" to "main" was silly and didn't actually help fight racism, but if you're still butthurt about it two years later, it means you're a racist.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

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Post by djhn »

davide_v wrote: post #293

I'm still using the old way: "crontab -e" inside the same EC2 where I run the app. In case of failure I automatically send an email to me. This is the easiest scenario in case you already have an EC2 for some other things that is already running. Instead, from scratch (no EC2), I'd probably use Lambda.

Out of curiosity and for the sake of completeness, by failure, you're probably talking about an error that the script itself can detect? What about a scenario where the EC2 goes down (silently)?

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

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Post by biggunz »

bingo-bongo wrote: post #121
Yeri wrote: post #41

https://github.com/dgtlmoon/changedetection.io There's a hosted solution, or you can self-host it

This ^ Does exactly what it says and gets bonus points due to self-hosted or as-a-service.

yes!!! changedetection.io is awesome, thanks for the nice words (project owner here :) )

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

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Post by earthboundkid »

dang wrote: post #321
earthboundkid wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the change from "master" to "main" was silly and didn't actually help fight racism, but if you're still butthurt about it two years later, it means you're a racist.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm being flagged for replying to someone who replied to a racist and agreeing that racism is bad? Whatever man, it's your site and you can moderate it how you want, but I don't think it's a good policy.

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

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Post by earthboundkid »

antifa wrote: post #216
earthboundkid wrote: post #200

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I thought the change from "master" to "main" was silly and didn't actually help fight racism, but if you're still butthurt about it two years later, it means you're a racist.

Even if you ignore the racism aspect, "main" is shorter, flows more naturally from the fingers, and is more semantically correct. The world is objectively a better place now.

Sure. The name of the branch is just a Schelling Point. It's nice to have a new, shorter default.

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

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Post by throwawayacc3 »

earthboundkid wrote: post #200
hoherd wrote: post #193

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The default branch on GitHub has been main for over 2 years. https://github.blog/changelog/2020-10-01-the-default-branch-...

I thought the change from "master" to "main" was silly and didn't actually help fight racism, but if you're still butthurt about it two years later, it means you're a racist.

"Ignore the fact that 'master' has nothing to do with race (came from 'master recording'), there's no concept of 'slave' branches in Git, etc. If you don't fetishize, infantilize, and patronize Black people as much as I do, you're a racist."

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

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Post by dang »

earthboundkid wrote: post #326
dang wrote: post #321

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Could you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments? It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for. https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

I'm being flagged for replying to someone who replied to a racist and agreeing that racism is bad? Whatever man, it's your site and you can moderate it how you want, but I don't think it's a good policy.

I believe we banned the troll account upthread. But whether you broke the rules has to do with your comments, not anyone else's.
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