I'm a .Net guy, and I'm interested in starting this project but I'm not sure what the best approach is.
I want to do the equivalent of writing a windows service, that periodically hits a site to get XML, (say google weather) and then sends SMS messages if certain criteria are met (ie it's going to freeze tonight, and it did not freeze last night(so I know to cover up my faucets, etc)).
So my question is two fold, is there some hosted app out there that does this already?
If not what's the best approach? I could just whip it up in c# and run it on my local box, but then it'd have to alway be on and connected.
Are there Hosting services that let you run a .Net service instead of a web server?
Is there some obvious better way to do this that I'm missing?
I feel like there should be a really simple solution and I'm staring right at it...