如何外包周期性任务（即“云”中）？

Say a client is happy with the work you've done creating a script to accomplish a task that gathers some information and outputs a hefty database file. Then, they're interested in having the task run periodically (approximately monthly) without human intervention. The client is not interested in running the task locally, so you're forced to find somewhere else to do it -- somewhere, as hokey as it sounds, "in the cloud."Say a client is happy with the work you've done