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by viraptor 2858 days ago
This sounds like something you could easily spin up on demand in AWS instead of aiming for reliability. Either an autoscaling group or a spot fleet that activates every hour, runs your job on startup, and kills itself. Micro is 1gb memory and costs $0.0104/h. Running that for 15min every hour is $1.8 a month. (+whatever storage space you need)

You could probably use a heroku task as well.
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backend-dev-33 2858 days ago
And Hetzner CX11 is €2.49 monthly and you have peace of mind regarding pricing (the price if FIXED).

Probably I have to rephrase the question to something like "Alternatives and side effects of Hetzner CX11 ?"

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viraptor 2858 days ago
The per-hour pricing I mentioned is fixed for the micro instance. (Well... It can go lower :-) ) I'm taking about normal EC2 instances here, so that is a cx11 alternative.
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