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Re: Hourly script [message #173331 is a reply to message #173327]

Sun, 03 April 2011 18:09

Jerry Stuckle
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On 4/3/2011 10:22 AM, Mr. B-o-B wrote:
> Jerry Stuckle cried from the depths of the abyss...
>
>> On 4/2/2011 8:18 PM, Mr. B-o-B wrote:
>>> On 4/2/2011 7:09 PM, Jerry Stuckle cried from the depths of the abyss:
>>>> On 4/2/2011 6:18 PM, Mr. B-o-B wrote:
>>>> > On 4/2/2011 3:37 PM, P E Schoen cried from the depths of the abyss:
>>>> >> "Question Boy" wrote in message
>>>> >> news:bc56da6b-df1c-4a56-9789-78fd24c0268d(at)s9g2000yqm(dot)googlegroups(dot)com...
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>
>>>> >>> I built a mailing tool for a custom database for a charity
>>>> >>> organisation and it does work, but our host has a limit of
>>>> >>> 200 e-mails an hour. As it stands, someone has to manually
>>>> >>> send out 200 e-mails every hour until the whole lot is processed
>>>> >>> (2800 recipients and growing). I was simply wondering if there
>>>> >>> is a way to modify/add a bit of code to process the entire
>>>> >>> recordset in batches of 200 records per hour?
>>>> >>
>>>> >> The other responses are probably all you need. The CRON job seems to
>>>> >> require access to the UNIX environment, and I'm not sure how that
>>>> >> might
>>>> >> be done if you are working from a Windows platform. There are many
>>>> >> ways
>>>> >> to do this, but the best way may depend on just how your script is
>>>> >> written. I am assuming it is PHP and is running on either a remote
>>>> >> host
>>>> >> or your localhost Apache server or equivalent.
>>>> >
>>>> > You will need shell access to run a cron locally on the host. If
>>>> > that is
>>>> > not an option, you can use a cron on another *nix box to hit a script
>>>> > that will send 200 messages.
>>>> > lynx -dump /webserver/script.php is a good one.
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> No you don't. There are webmaster tools which allow you to set up cron
>>>> jobs.
>>>
>>> This is true.
>>>
>>>>
>>>> > 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?
>>>
>>> Despirate times call for despirate measures.
>>>
>>
>> And what happens if your windows box gets shut off? Or the link fails?
>> Or any of a bunch of other things that can happen?
>>
>> It's a terrible suggestion.
>>
>
> I use this trick for various things at work, and have never had a
> problem. Not a terrible idea if you think about it.
>

I had a client who had a forum which sent emails based on cron jobs.
They moved to a host which didn't allow cron jobs and tried your
suggestion. Too many messages got delayed for too long - for instance,
a thunderstorm knocked out power to their office on a Friday evening.
No one was in there to restart the system making the calls until Monday
morning. Meanwhile, all kinds of messages got lost.

It's not bad if you want to do stats; miss a day and it will still
recover the next day. But people who want *reliable* results know
better. And if you don't care about that, why not just host from your
house? It's much cheaper.

>>>>
>>>> > I myself would just program the email script to send 200 messages /
>>>> > wait
>>>> > for the duration of the hour, repeat until all messages are sent.
>>>> >
>>>> >
>>>>
>>>> And exactly how are you going to do that?
>>>
>>> It's fairly easy to time a script, and make it sleep for the difference.
>>>
>>
>> And what happens when the script times out? Or it crashes? Or the
>> server is rebooted? Or the host kills it because it's been running for
>> so long? Or any of a hundred other things which can go wrong?
>>
>> Another bad suggestion, actually.
>>
>
> Cheesit's Rice Man. Get in the game here. One can modify the php.ini
> (max_execution_time) to be 61 minutes. If access to modify php.ini in not
> available one can change this in the script itself using the ini_set
> option so it will not time out.
> Crashes? Then this guy should find a new host. As for the reboot. Who
> cares. If this is setup properly, it will run again at the desired time
> (post reboot) and process the remaining pending messages. It's not a bad
> idea.
>

I am in the game here. First of all, you cannot modify php.ini unless
you have access to the system - in which case you will have no problem
setting up a cron job. And many (most?) shared hosts do not allow the
max_execution_time to be overridden - for very good reason (reliable
hosts won't, at least).

As for crashes - all kinds of things can happen. The script itself can
crash; systems do get rebooted. And how are you going to restart the
script without access to the system?

You show an amazing lack of practical knowledge of how hosting works.

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		Re: Hourly script By: Jerry Stuckle on Sat, 02 April 2011 17:40
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