Running Cron Tasks on Heroku

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I’m not entirely sure what you mean by “run my own cron tasks manually”. For cron specifically, you need access to crontab, which they can control, as they’re their servers. If you have another way of doing it, it would probably be fine, but bear in mind that your app is not tied to a specific server when running under Heroku, and that the server will change between executions.

Also, unless they’ve changed it since last time I checked, you can run daily cron tasks for free, but hourly costs $3/mo.

EDIT: Yes, daily crons are free. See http://addons.heroku.com/.

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