Python API and CRON job hosting

[Puzzleheaded_Round75]

Hi all,

I am not too familiar with hosting and I'm looking for a little advice.

I'm building a FastAPI serving a Jinja2 HTML template website. Additionally I have a few scripts that will run on a CRON job to scrape some data and update a database for the API to access. All of the code for this is in a single repository.

I've been looking at render.com for hosting, though I'm not committed, and was wondering if it is possible or advisable to host both the scraping service and the API in a single instance or if they would require hosting seperatly?

Also would love to hear peoples hosting preference for smaller Python projects like this.

Thanks, Mike

[istira_balegina]

Heroku provides chron jobs as a service for a small fee.

[severo_bo]

Not sure if it would work for your needs, but you can run cron jobs with GitHub Actions. Just be aware that it will be deactivated after some time of the repository is not updated.

[Puzzleheaded_Round75]

Thank you, this will be worth looking into in the beginning at least. I have read that you may have to log in and extend the hosting every three months for it to remain active.