[CFCDev] Alternative to cfschedule?

[Ken Dunnington]

This year, we partnered with a local web hosting company and part of 
the deal was having them handle hosting, email and tech support for our 
clients. Considering I was doing all this myself, on top of being the 
only developer for ~60-80 clients, this was understandably a Good 
Thing. :) But giving up your admin rights comes at a cost - I no longer 
have access to the CF Admin.

This hasn't proved to be much of a problem, and the team we now work 
with has been really great about setting up data sources, verity 
collections, debugging IP's and scheduled tasks. But that can't last. 
They've asked me to try and find a better way to handle scheduled 
tasks, and since we use a newsletter system which relies on them, this 
is somewhat of a high priority for me.

My first step is to eliminate scheduled tasks from as much code as 
possible - newsletters will get sent when you click 'Go' from now on. 
We can all live with that. But my question is whether or not anybody 
can think of an alternative for those times when a scheduled task is 
just necessary? (For example, I have one run at 1 am every morning to 
update a verity index, and will need one to run every morning to send 
out snow conditions for a local ski mountain.)

Any thoughts?
 - Ken
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