I am in a very similar situation, what I ended up doing is use https://uptimerobot.com/ https://uptimerobot.com/ to monitor a specific route "HEAD https://examp

I am in a very similar situation, what I ended up doing is use https://uptimerobot.com/ https://uptimerobot.com/ to monitor a specific route "HEAD https://example.com/update https://example.com/update", which will update the data. It sends a HEAD request to the given path. 0 code on the cron side (cannot be simpler), and if you only monitor a single route per hour is free as well. AND you get a free UI on how the cron job went :)