title: Google App Engine for pseudo-cronjobs?
body: <p>I look for a possibility to create pseudo-cronjobs as I cannot use the real jobs on UNIX.</p>
  
  <p>Since Python scripts can run for an unlimited period, I thought Python would be a great solution.</p>
  
  <p>On Google App Engine you can set up Python scripts and it's free. So I should use the App Engine.</p>
  
  <p>The App Engine allows 160,000 external URL accesses (right?) so you should have 160000/31/24/60 = 3,6 accesses per minute.</p>
  
  <p>So my script would be:</p>
  
  <pre><code>import time
  import urllib
  while time.clock() &lt; 86400:
      # execute pseudo-cronjob file and then wait 60 seconds
      content = urllib.urlopen('http://www.example.org/cronjob_file.php').read()
      time.sleep(60)
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Unfortunately, I have no possibility to test the script, so my questions are:
  1) Do you think this would work?
  2) Is it allowed (Google TOS) to use the service for such an activity?
  3) Is my calculation for the URL accesses per minute right?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks in advance!</p>