Scheduled posts without cron

I get the impression that Bytehost may only offer cron support with their paid plans. At least Cpanel services seems to indicate it would be available. You may be out of luck with that particular host if you are stuck using a free plan.

Is there any alternative? I once built a Drupal based site that used Poorman’s Cron, which ran scheduled jobs whenever the site was loaded instead of relying on the server’s cron install. Anything like that, or is it possible to run a cron script from my own computer to publish anything that’s missed it’s schedule?

You know, I’ve never really looked into it, but it would be interesting to see if anyone has come up with an alternative.

Take this one with a grain of salt, and only for informative reading purposes, because I know NOTHING about it at all – and I find it more amusing than practical at first glance.

WebBasedCron.com

What I find amusing is that if you are going to invest in the service, you might as well invest in a decent hosting plan with a better feature set…

Just wanted to update this. I found that the wp missed schedule plugin seems to get the job done. It’s not exact, but it works. As a matter of fact, the past couple days, all articles were posted a few hours early, but at least I don’t have to worry about doing it manually.