In recent times, my opinion about self-hosting has changed. Instead of paying for multiple services, I am now renting a decently sized VPS on Scaleway, and hosting all my projects on them. It’s been three months, and it has been working out great for me.
I don’t really agree with that. I’m using AWS for that, and for my “small cron jobs” I simply create a lambda for them. Then you can create a CRON rule in Event Bridge and schedule the lambda to start whenever you need