In addition to background workers, heroku also supports daily and hourly cron jobs.
Sounds like that's what you want: http://docs.heroku.com/cron On Jan 30, 6:28 pm, Tobes <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi there > > I understand that workers are charged at $0.05 per hour, and as long > as have workers running, you get charged. This means that empty queues > cost money too; I'm paying for mostly idle cpu time :) > > Is there a way around this? I want to fetch a RSS feed every hour or > so, and it's a perfect job for a background task. > > What about if I schedule workers so that they only run for so many > minutes an hour? The only way I think of so far is to set up cron jobs > on another server that start and stop the workers for limited time > periods. Feels yucky. > > T -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Heroku" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/heroku?hl=en.
