Running a program on a server
<p>I want to build an Android application that downloads an XML file from a web server and displays its contents in a readable format.
My problem is generating that XML file. Basically I want to run a program, say, every 30 minutes that downloads a web page (as that data is not easily accessible), parses it, generates said XML file and puts it somewhere for the Android application to download.
Now, I was writing a Java application to do this, but it came to me: where am I going to run this? I thought of having a laptop permanently running at home, but there must be a better alternative.
I have online hosting, but it is very simple. It does not even include SSH.</p>

<p>Any ideas?</p>

<p><strong>Edit:</strong> as per your suggestions, I checked and yes, my cPanel does have a "Cron Jobs" section. I will now investigate it. Thank you so much for your help.</p>
