PHP: running scheduled jobs (cron jobs)

Question

I have a site on my webhotel I would like to run some scheduled tasks on. What methods of achieving this would you recommend?

What I’ve thought out so far is having

Answer 1

That's what cronjobs are made for. man crontab assuming you are running a linux server. If you don't have shell access or no way to setup cronjobs, there are free services that setup cronjobs on external servers and ping one of your URLs.