jobs-without-workers.txt
My <stack> app on <host> needs to do slow work after a request finishes:
<describe it>. This host can't run a long-lived worker process.

Design the simplest thing that works here:
- A jobs table in my existing database.
- A scheduled job that picks up pending work every minute or so.
- Locking, so two runs never take the same job.
- Retries with a limit, and somewhere to see jobs that keep failing.
- How the user finds out their job is done.

Only use what this host supports. Show me the table, the scheduled
script and how a page queues a job.

A table and a scheduled job is a real queue. It handles far more than a small project needs, and there's no extra service to keep alive.