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

If you do not have the option to setup a cronjob you can call the script with cUrl (as alternative to wget - same functionality). Just do a scheduled task on your local machine that executes the cUrl function.