I recently had some smallen private projects and I reasearached and tried out a lot of services. I needed cron jobs to run Node.js scripts properly. My use cas

I recently had some smallen private projects and I reasearached and tried out a lot of services. I needed cron jobs to run Node.js scripts properly. My use cases have been: - Web Scraping of some websites to check stock availability of a product (4 times a day). - Web Scraping of a website to get an apppointment at a specific citizen office (every 5 seconds). If success then send a Telegram Chat Bot message to me. The second use case was a bit tricky, because my IP was kicked frequently from the server, I tried out what the sweet spot timing for the ping was and my setup (all jobs with different IPs) was the following: 1. setup on my Raspberry Pi in combination of the package PM2 (PM2 is a daemon process manager that will help you manage and keep your application online 24/7) 2. setup on Render (https://render.com/ https://render.com/) Advantage here was the very convinient, quick and easy setup. I was able to link my Github Repository to it and the Cron Job would re-build the program automatically whenever a new master version on GitHub was available. I used an in-memory TypeScript job scheduler library in my project that repeatedly executes given tasks within specified intervals of time (e. g. "each 5 seconds") until 7 PM and I let the scron job service execute the script again at 7 AM in the morning. Debug Print Console inclusive. 3. setup on EvenNode (https://www.evennode.com/docs/cron-jobs https://www.evennode.com/docs/cron-jobs) Here the upload of my node.js script was done via FileZilla to the FTP-Server of EvenNode. Linkage to GitHub Repository is also possible but since I am not that familiar with the private key setup at GitHub I chose the FTP-Server option. I used an in-memory TypeScript job scheduler library in my project that repeatedly executes given tasks within specified intervals of time (e. g. "each 5 seconds") until 7 PM and I let the scron job service execute the script again at 7 AM in the morning. Debug Print Console inclusive. Both online Service were very cheap, paid cents only. The Raspberry Pi solution was for free (only energy consumption). I can highly recommend render.com and evennode.com for cron jobs.