Self Hosted Iron Worker Alternative

Question

I now have a fully functional Iron Worker script and implemented it into my application and everything is awesome except one thing. I started to notice that my App is starting to gain some users and that Iron Worker is way to expensive for what I do with it.

So, my plan is now, deploy a couple of Digital Ocean droplets with IronWorker like software on them so I can run my scripts there.

The reason I think IronWorker isn't really suited for my goal is because the CPU usage and RAM usage of my script is really really low. I did the maths and it would save me 200 dollars a month switching from IronWorker to a self hosted Iron Worker like setup. Now, my question is, since I don't want to reinvent the wheel again, could you guys recommend some of these Iron Worker like applications that I can install on my DO Droplets and let them do their thing. It may be worth noting that I'm using Laravel 4 as my Apps framework so I have composer and all of Laravels functions and libraries available.

It may also be worth pointing out that my script takes 60 minutes to complete. And the script needs to be started when a user commands it to. There may be a delay of maximum 2-5 minutes. No more, otherwise the app would be kind of useless.

Thanks in advance for those who read this long, boring and badly structured message and thinking about it for a moment or two. :)

Answer 1

I have used beanstalkd with Laravel 4 successfully have a look:

http://kr.github.io/beanstalkd/download.html