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pibefision
Great news!. I've started to use Heroku for hosting, and i'm very impressed.

I really would like to have a plan between $15 and $200 too.

sunkencity
heroku's awesome but the lack of minute or five minute cron is dealbreaker for me, thus i need my own servers to be able to schedule mailings
jamesheroku
For sub-hour scheduled or recurring tasks, most users prefer a scheduled background task with DJ, rather than old-school cron. There are a bunch of ways to do this, for example:

   Delayed::Job.enqueue(work, 0, Time.now + 5.minutes)
Docs: http://docs.heroku.com/delayed-job
sunkencity
Great! I posted that hoping that there would be a solution. I've looked around delauyed job trying to find some scheduling funciton but I didn't look close enough it seems. Thanx!
jcapote
You could have a cheapo server be the "timekeeper" that sends a web request every minute to a heroku app which in turn does whatever you need.