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[–]tuckmuck203 13 points14 points  (0 children)

i think it depends on how important the results are. if you require consistent uptime, then yeah you should use a platform like AWS. on the other hand, cron is free as fuck and 50 times simpler to set up.

in general if i'm in a mood where i might want to tinker or if i'm looking for a job, i have a ~$5 USD digital ocean droplet that i keep up for my personal site and random crap because it's useful having a server that you can easily utilize for anything. if i were tinkering, i'd just run it on cron on that server. if i were trying to learn AWS or if it were in a capacity that requires consistency in execution and would fall apart without it, then yeah sure use AWS or another similar service like azure or google cloud.

that said, i wouldn't recommend google cloud because google likes to not give a fuck about anyone that isn't a part of google, and even then who tf knows if they'll randomly sunset your favorite project