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Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronj... by tracker1 on Monday December 19, 2022 @04:50PM (#34058262)
I've got a couple projects like this, that mostly just create bundles of other source projects that I'm not involved with. Creating a windows installer, or docker image for projects that don't have that integrated. It's kind of annoying that they will stop in several weeks when there's no project changes.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronj... by moehm on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:24PM (#34058616)
> It's kind of annoying that they will stop in several weeks when there's no project changes.

Can't you configure a GHA which commits nonsense every month?

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Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronj... by tracker1 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:00AM (#34094724)
Yeah... I will probably do that, with my daily check action (update a last-check) text file or something.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronj... by genericacct on Monday December 19, 2022 @05:27PM (#34058656)
Can you not trigger an action via a local cronjob and the API?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the cheapest, easiest way to host a cronj... by tracker1 on Thursday December 22, 2022 @11:01AM (#34094727)
But then I need a second system to do that.
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