"Hangfire is an easy way to perform fire-and-forget, delayed and recurring jobs inside ASP.NET applications. CPU and I/O intensive, long-running and short-running jobs are supported. No Windows Service / Task Scheduler required. Backed by Redis, SQL Server, SQL Azure and MSMQ. Hangfire provides a unified programming model to handle background tasks in a reliable way and run them on shared hosting, dedicated hosting or in cloud. You can start with a simple setup and grow computational power for background jobs with time for these scenarios: mass notifications/newsletters, batch import from xml, csv or json, creation of archives, firing off web hooks, deleting users, building different graphs, image/video processing, purging temporary files, recurring automated reports, database maintenance, etc. "