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

Cron is a general purpose solution for scheduling problems. But when you go big and schedules go high in frequency, there can be reliability/overlapping issues. If you see such problems, consider something like supervise or more sophisticated monit.