Re: [Magpierss-general] Cron job & Magpie

[Russ J. <rus...@gm...>]

I find on my site that it works best if I use a cron job in
conjunction with Magpie because if I don't then one user each hour
will have to wait 30 or more seconds to see my site.

Russ

On 5/26/05, Ikku.nl <co...@ik...> wrote:
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> Hello,
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> I'm from the Netherlands and my English is not so good, but i'll try. Sin=
ce
> a couple of days i'm=20
> working with Magpie to go from rss to my webpage. On a duthc forum i had =
a
> discussion.
> Do i use a cron job in combination with Magpie to get the best results or=
 is
> that not necessary?
> My first impression was that it is not necessay, but an other person says
> that you have to combinate
> it with a cronjob for the following reason...he said that if you dont use=
 a
> cronjob the visitor have=20
> to wait to long till the time the feed is parsed. Or if the feed for exam=
ple
> gives an 404 error, the
> visitor have to wait a couple of seconds.
> But my opinion was that Magpie goes to the cache file in that case...and
> that the time a visitor
> have to wait till the feed is parsed, is not so long so a cronjob is not
> necessary.
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> So my question is, do i have to use a cronjob in combination with Magpie =
and
> why or why not
> and what is better for the visitors, speed, bandwidth etc. and why?
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> Gr.
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> Maarten
>