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my friend made an awesome airline simulation game, and i was just wondering if anyone knows some decent hosting service with cron jobs.

Weird Fish supports cron jobs

What's a cron job?

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Originally posted by Ezra
What's a cron job?

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It's like a scheduled task, but in Linux.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crontab

cron is a *nix daemon to run scheldued tasks it reads from the crontab file.  It's often used on server to do scheldued backups for example

Ah, Lycos has those

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Originally posted by Dempsey
Weird Fish supports cron jobs

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how often can these be run, there are two cron jobs, that need to be run every hour.

Also, how long is the execution time?