Static export automatically done every X hours?

[blissful fossil]

Hi there, Im creating a website similar to a blog, and I'm using the static export https://nextjs.org/docs/advanced-features/static-html-export because I'd like to host my website without using a node server in production, like Cloudflare Pages, Netlify, Github Pages, etc. But the issue is that my content updates every 12 hours, so would I have to manually run the next static export command every 12 hours and upload the build manually? I thought about making the website in plain React with no Next but I'd like to have the benefits of static site generation (SSG) for SEO.

Something I could do is set up a VPS where it automatically runs "next static export" every 12 hours and then it uploads the build files to a static host like Cloudflare Pages/Netlify/Github Pages. With this method I achieve the goal of not using a node server in production, but seems a bit uncomfortable, is there an easier solution that I'm not aware of?

[dusk steppe]

@blissful fossil where did you on this decision? I am following the same concept, but deploying to AWS S3.

[blissful fossil]

I ended up using github actions to trigger a deploy and upload the build files, here's more info about it: https://www.freecodecamp.org/news/how-to-use-github-actions-to-deploy-a-next-js-website-to-aws-s3/