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Cron jobs on App Platforms timeout limits

Posted on January 1, 2026

Hi, I have a python program that should just run scheduled jobs. Every day at a fixed time, a python function in my main.py will be called and this function can take an hour to complete execution. I found on app platform docs that there is a 30 min job deployment (https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/app-platform/details/limits/) I wanted to confirm if this timeout applies to my use case as well?



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