Schedule Javascript Server Side Script Execution

Question

• Is it possible to run javascript server side?
• Is it possible to access a script http://mywebsite.com/cgi-bin/performDailyIndex.js. And it will schedule a script to run every four hours? Will a webhost allow myself to do this or is this bad webmaster practices?

The idea is to trigger my webcrawler/indexer for my website - a specialised search engine - to run & index a set of web seeds.

Maybe I can configure through cpanel a way to automatically run my script at a certain time?

Answer 1

For Javascript on server side you can use :

• Node.JS : http://nodejs.org/
• Rhino : http://www.mozilla.org/rhino/

Up to you to find a provider with a scheduler. I take an example, Heroku, it provide a scheduler addon :

• http://addons.heroku.com/scheduler

ps: Heroku can host NodeJS.

Hope it help.