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    #32
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    Bard wrote:
    I'm not 100% sure how I'd do that considering my site is hosted on a Windows based shared server on hosting365. At the moment, it just uses an ASP script that uses the MSXML component to nab the content from an external source (i.e. the blogs.boards.ie site).

    Windows has some sort of job scheduling thing, no? The idea is that you set a job to run every hour or so that retrieves the data and stores it locally. There are ready-made scripts that will do this; it's how blog syndication thingies work.


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    #33
    the_menace
    Closed Accounts Posts: 157 ✭✭the_menace


    rsynnott wrote:
    Windows has some sort of job scheduling thing, no? The idea is that you set a job to run every hour or so that retrieves the data and stores it locally. There are ready-made scripts that will do this; it's how blog syndication thingies work.

    Yep, they're called 'scheduled tasks' on ISS as opposed to CRON jobs on Unix. To the best of my knowledge though, H365 won't let you use them on a shared Windows server.


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    cgarvey
    Registered Users Posts: 3,886 ✭✭✭cgarvey


    Or the poor man's workaround (if H365 don't give you cron/scheduled tasks access) is to check the timestamp of your locally cached content.. if stale, update new file, if not, just read/include it.. type thing.
    .cg


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    #35
    rsynnott
    Registered Users Posts: 4,003 ✭✭✭rsynnott


    the_menace wrote:
    Yep, they're called 'scheduled tasks' on ISS as opposed to CRON jobs on Unix. To the best of my knowledge though, H365 won't let you use them on a shared Windows server.

    Really? Dear me... Shared IIS servers, as far as I have seen, are generally fairly dire. Having no .htaccess equivalent would drive me up the walls.


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