How to implement background processing for ASP.Net MVC website in a shared hosting environment?

Question

I am developing my first web application using ASP.Net MVC, and I am in a situation where I would like a background service to process status notifications outside of the applic

Answer 1

To answer whether GoDaddy will support a seperate service you need to ask them.

However there are a number of creative ways that you can "get around" this issue on shared hosting.

1. Have a secure page that's purpose is to execute your background work. You could have scheduled task on a machine under your control that calls to this web page at set intervals.
2. Use a variation of the Background Worker Thread answer from @safi. Your background worker thread could check to see if another is already processing and stop, so that only one instance is running at a time.