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Cron jobs alternative, Yahoo Web Hosting Josh 05-19-2008
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Posted by Josh on May 19, 2008, 11:18 am
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 I have a website w/ Yahoo Web Hosting and unfortunately they do not
allow use of cron jobs. My site sends out automated personalized e-
mails on a regularly scheduled basis, currently via the method of
placing the e-mail PHP code on a page on the site and accessing it at
some point each day.

I would like to set it up as fully automated on the server, but how
can I do this without cron jobs? Are there alternatives? Seems like
SourceForge has a few million e-mail reminder "programs" but the ones
I found generally require cron jobs.

Posted by Captain Paralytic on May 19, 2008, 11:35 am
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> I have a website w/ Yahoo Web Hosting and unfortunately they do not
> allow use of cron jobs. My site sends out automated personalized e-
> mails on a regularly scheduled basis, currently via the method of
> placing the e-mail PHP code on a page on the site and accessing it at
> some point each day.
>
> I would like to set it up as fully automated on the server, but how
> can I do this without cron jobs? Are there alternatives? Seems like
> SourceForge has a few million e-mail reminder "programs" but the ones
> I found generally require cron jobs.

Run a cron job somewhere else (or maybe just a Windoze scheduled job)
to access the page via CURL or the like.

Alternatively, change your hosting.

Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22=C1lvaro_G=2 on May 19, 2008, 11:40 am
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Josh escribió:
> I have a website w/ Yahoo Web Hosting and unfortunately they do not
> allow use of cron jobs. My site sends out automated personalized e-
> mails on a regularly scheduled basis, currently via the method of
> placing the e-mail PHP code on a page on the site and accessing it at
> some point each day.

The alternative that always works, if you don't mind depending on a
third party server, is using an external service to call a URL in your
site that triggers the appropriate scripts.

This is the first Google result:

http://www.webcron.org/

As about security*, you can do all soft of tricks from giving the URL a
long random name to filtering by IP.

(*) By security I basically mean not getting your scheduled tasks
triggered randomly 100 times a day.

Anyway, I hope Yahoo Web Hosting is free. Otherwise, cron support is
quite a basic feature in hosting plans.

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Posted by Josh on May 19, 2008, 12:04 pm
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Thanks very much for the help.

I started the site about 1.5 years ago before I knew anything about
programming at all so I was not knowledgeable enough to select a good
hosting service. Now I'm kind of stuck because moving servers is such
a pain. I've run into 2 problems w/ Yahoo so far: no cron jobs and no
access mod_rewrite. I didn't even know what those things meant a year
ago, but of course now it's a real pain.

For the short term I'll look into the solutions you guys offered. For
the long-term I'll have to change hosting services. I hear GoDaddy is
a good choice. Recommendations?

Posted by =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=22=C1lvaro_G=2 on May 19, 2008, 12:19 pm
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Josh escribió:
> For the short term I'll look into the solutions you guys offered. For
> the long-term I'll have to change hosting services. I hear GoDaddy is
> a good choice. Recommendations?

My personal experience with GoDaddy was terrible. The PHP interpreter
would crash randomly with very simple scripts, something like once in
five page loads, and all I got from their support staff was: "We cannot
help with user script issues, have a nice day". It is very cheap, though.


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