Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry Johnson
Dont take so long on each task. break them down smaller, into more
granular pieces.

dont process them all at one whack, but build a queue of items to
process, and then run through them individually or in much smaller
groups.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Looking for opinions here. I'm looking to launch a CF based car/truck/cycle
  RSS feed aggregator. I don't expect to have a ton of traffic initially, so I
  thought shared hosting would work. But, when I built the app, I found that
  the scripts I needed to run (even using the cfthread tag) would take on
  average 1-3 minutes to run. A few would take 4-5 minutes. (I'm aggregating a
  lot of data from several sources at once through 4-5 dozen daily scheduled
  tasks on my dev server.)

  The problem with shared hosting is that there usually are restrictions to
  how long a page can run. Typically it is 30-60 seconds. There might even be
  issues with the number of scheduled tasks that my app requires. Is my only
  recourse to get VPS based hosting? Are there any other alternatives that I
  am missing that might save me a few $$$?

  Thanks for your thoughts, Che


  

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RE: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

2008-02-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
Thanks Jerry. That's not an option, really. My # of scheduled tasks would
increase quite a bit if I took that approach and because of the
inconsistencies of the feeds, extra steps are needed to be performed to make
certain that all of the data is homogeneuous between the feeds. That said,
the tasks are running very well considering what is being done.

Basically it comes down to this. Are there any shared CF web hosts that
allow to have an high number of scheduled tasks be run daily knowing that
some of them may take a few minutes to complete?

-Original Message-
From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:53 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

Dont take so long on each task. break them down smaller, into more granular
pieces.

dont process them all at one whack, but build a queue of items to process,
and then run through them individually or in much smaller groups.

On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Looking for opinions here. I'm looking to launch a CF based 
 car/truck/cycle  RSS feed aggregator. I don't expect to have a ton of 
 traffic initially, so I  thought shared hosting would work. But, when 
 I built the app, I found that  the scripts I needed to run (even using 
 the cfthread tag) would take on  average 1-3 minutes to run. A few 
 would take 4-5 minutes. (I'm aggregating a  lot of data from several 
 sources at once through 4-5 dozen daily scheduled  tasks on my dev 
 server.)

  The problem with shared hosting is that there usually are 
 restrictions to  how long a page can run. Typically it is 30-60 
 seconds. There might even be  issues with the number of scheduled 
 tasks that my app requires. Is my only  recourse to get VPS based 
 hosting? Are there any other alternatives that I  am missing that might
save me a few $$$?

  Thanks for your thoughts, Che


  



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RE: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

2008-02-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
Ben, I see what you are saying. That would be an interesting way to limit
the # of scheduled tasks that I need to create. No matter how I host the
site (shared/vps), I might just do that to save some time and to simplify
things a bit. 

-Original Message-
From: Ben Doom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:19 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

I'm not sure why that's not an option.

It seems to me that you could create a db table which holds a list of
accounts to be processed.  Dequeue the first one, process it, and
re-enqueue.  Set up a single scheduled task for this, and fire it off every
so-many (1, 2, 5?) minutes.

Just a suggestion.

--Ben Doom

Che Vilnonis wrote:
 Thanks Jerry. That's not an option, really. My # of scheduled tasks 
 would increase quite a bit if I took that approach and because of the 
 inconsistencies of the feeds, extra steps are needed to be performed 
 to make certain that all of the data is homogeneuous between the 
 feeds. That said, the tasks are running very well considering what is
being done.
 
 Basically it comes down to this. Are there any shared CF web hosts 
 that allow to have an high number of scheduled tasks be run daily 
 knowing that some of them may take a few minutes to complete?
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:53 PM
 To: CF-Talk
 Subject: Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?
 
 Dont take so long on each task. break them down smaller, into more 
 granular pieces.
 
 dont process them all at one whack, but build a queue of items to 
 process, and then run through them individually or in much smaller groups.
 
 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Looking for opinions here. I'm looking to launch a CF based 
 car/truck/cycle  RSS feed aggregator. I don't expect to have a ton of 
 traffic initially, so I  thought shared hosting would work. But, when 
 I built the app, I found that  the scripts I needed to run (even 
 using the cfthread tag) would take on  average 1-3 minutes to run. A 
 few would take 4-5 minutes. (I'm aggregating a  lot of data from 
 several sources at once through 4-5 dozen daily scheduled  tasks on 
 my dev
 server.)

  The problem with shared hosting is that there usually are 
 restrictions to  how long a page can run. Typically it is 30-60 
 seconds. There might even be  issues with the number of scheduled 
 tasks that my app requires. Is my only  recourse to get VPS based 
 hosting? Are there any other alternatives that I  am missing that 
 might
 save me a few $$$?
  Thanks for your thoughts, Che


  
 
 
 
 



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Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

2008-02-14 Thread Ben Doom
I'm not sure why that's not an option.

It seems to me that you could create a db table which holds a list of 
accounts to be processed.  Dequeue the first one, process it, and 
re-enqueue.  Set up a single scheduled task for this, and fire it off 
every so-many (1, 2, 5?) minutes.

Just a suggestion.

--Ben Doom

Che Vilnonis wrote:
 Thanks Jerry. That's not an option, really. My # of scheduled tasks would
 increase quite a bit if I took that approach and because of the
 inconsistencies of the feeds, extra steps are needed to be performed to make
 certain that all of the data is homogeneuous between the feeds. That said,
 the tasks are running very well considering what is being done.
 
 Basically it comes down to this. Are there any shared CF web hosts that
 allow to have an high number of scheduled tasks be run daily knowing that
 some of them may take a few minutes to complete?
 
 -Original Message-
 From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
 Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 1:53 PM
 To: CF-Talk
 Subject: Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?
 
 Dont take so long on each task. break them down smaller, into more granular
 pieces.
 
 dont process them all at one whack, but build a queue of items to process,
 and then run through them individually or in much smaller groups.
 
 On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 1:37 PM, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 Looking for opinions here. I'm looking to launch a CF based 
 car/truck/cycle  RSS feed aggregator. I don't expect to have a ton of 
 traffic initially, so I  thought shared hosting would work. But, when 
 I built the app, I found that  the scripts I needed to run (even using 
 the cfthread tag) would take on  average 1-3 minutes to run. A few 
 would take 4-5 minutes. (I'm aggregating a  lot of data from several 
 sources at once through 4-5 dozen daily scheduled  tasks on my dev 
 server.)

  The problem with shared hosting is that there usually are 
 restrictions to  how long a page can run. Typically it is 30-60 
 seconds. There might even be  issues with the number of scheduled 
 tasks that my app requires. Is my only  recourse to get VPS based 
 hosting? Are there any other alternatives that I  am missing that might
 save me a few $$$?
  Thanks for your thoughts, Che


  
 
 
 
 

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RE: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

2008-02-14 Thread Che Vilnonis
I see your point. 

-Original Message-
From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2008 3:28 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

If so, I'd like that list as well - to make sure I never host with them.

lol!



On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Basically it comes down to this. Are there any shared CF web hosts 
 that  allow to have an high number of scheduled tasks be run daily 
 knowing that  some of them may take a few minutes to complete?



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Re: OT: What type of CF hosting do I need?

2008-02-14 Thread Jerry Johnson
If so, I'd like that list as well - to make sure I never host with them.

lol!



On Thu, Feb 14, 2008 at 3:02 PM, Che Vilnonis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
  Basically it comes down to this. Are there any shared CF web hosts that
  allow to have an high number of scheduled tasks be run daily knowing that
  some of them may take a few minutes to complete?

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