I'm new to Cloud Hosting / PaaS and have a question regarding workers. I would like to host an app at Fortrabbit and under http://www.fortrabbit.com/pricing (click on Custom) I can choose a Worker. I googled about "cloud hosting worker" and similar stuff but could not find any explanations. On their website I didn't find anything about that either. Could you please tell me what does this "thing" do for me as if I'm your little brother?!
Thanking you in advance.
A worker is a generic term for a process that does something other than serve web requests. It may process a queue, run scheduled jobs using cron, process files, or any number of other support-type activities. It generally does not interface with users or listen on the network. Kind of a catch all term.