Scheduling a regular event: Cron/Cron alternatives (including Celery)

Question

Something I\'ve had interest in is regularly running a certain set of actions at regular time intervals. Obviously, this is a task for cron, right?

Unfortunately, the In

Answer 1

A simple, non-Celery way to approach things would be to create custom django-admin commands to perform your asynchronous or scheduled tasks.

Then, on Windows, you use the at command to schedule these tasks. On Linux, you use cron.

I'd also strongly recommend ditching Windows if you can for a development environment. Your life will be so much better on Linux or even Mac OSX. Re-purpose a spare or old machine with Ubuntu for example, or run Ubuntu in a VM on your Windows box.