By Phil Gyford
I’d like to try using App Platform to run some Django sites. Almost every site I’ve made requires one or more commands to be run periodically (e.g. once an hour, once a day, etc). On a VPS I’d use cron to do this, and on Heroku I’d use Heroku Scheduler (with less flexibility).
But I can’t see a way to do this on App Platform. I assume there’s something obvious I’ve missed, as it seems quite a basic feature?
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