Processing data from the database in the background on the hosting?

Question

Network administration

Hello.
I have a DB, it has only one table with two fields "id" and "message in json".
I work with the table as with queue. I take the very first message, process it and send a response to the user, delete this message from the table. The problem is that there are a large number of messages and a normal session is not enough to process all the messages. Therefore, I need a script that would perform processing in the background (something like a php daemon). Another problem is that due to the small budget I use regular Elastic web hosting and I have no idea how to run and control a running script. Plus, on this hosting you can use scripts only in php. Help plz)

Answer 1

There is such thing CRON. Which can do some actions, let's say run the script once a minute, all this can be found in more detail in the hoster's panel.

Answer 2

Use cron. Don't forget about protection against repeated script execution.