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Re: Hourly script [message #173325 is a reply to message #173315] Sun, 03 April 2011 12:53 Go to previous messageGo to previous message
Jerry Stuckle is currently offline  Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/2/2011 11:02 PM, Michael Fesser wrote:
> .oO(Jerry Stuckle)
>
>> On 4/2/2011 6:18 PM, Mr. B-o-B wrote:
>>>
>>> This can also be done from a remote windows box as well using scheduled
>>> tasks.
>>
>> Oh gawd - why would you EVER want to do that?
>
> If the hosting plan doesn't include cron jobs and you don't want to pay
> twice as much for a little site, then IMHO triggering such jobs from the
> outside is acceptable.
>
> On some of the sites that I maintain I use this to update their access
> statistics. The client's hosting plan doesn't include cron jobs, so my
> own local server (24/7) calls the AWStats update script on these sites
> every few hours. Pretty simple, cheap and reliable, as long as my own
> DSL link doesn't go down. But in this case it's only about statistics.
>
> Micha

Updating AWStats once a day is quite different from sending emails.
Triggering from another machine makes just about as much sense as
hosting the site in your own home. Too many things can go wrong and the
emails not get sent.

And it doesn't cost "twice as much" to find a host which does support
cron jobs, unless you have a super-cheap hosting plan. (But then I've
never seen those plans be worth the money; they're great until something
happens.)



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