Alternatives?

[bax]

Anybody know any alternatives to Crontabs? (a.k.a cronjobs) because i find it difficult finding hosts that support it. For those aren't sure crontab is a script that schedules events.

I dont want to have to resort to hosting myself and use windows to schedule a .bat file lol.

So if anybody knows any alternatives or methods let me know please.

-BaX

[UnlimitedMB]

For what reason do you need cron?
There are very little reasons that a hosting account needs to use cron.

Normally you would just store a timestamp in a file or mysql, and when the vistor comes back, you check the timestamp and see if anything needs to be done, like activate functions or whatever.

[bax]

for checking availability of servers, weather online offline and check every so often etc. if ya get what i mean. also check pings

[UnlimitedMB]

Thats called a background process, which most hosts, even paid ones do not allow.

[bax]

found 1 who supports cronjobs, only took me 6 hours :o lol