[Plugin: FeedWordPress] Running Feedwordpress on Free Hosting Websites

  • q292u

    (@q292u)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    I run a WordPress Site (supercars-for-sale.com) on a shared, free hosting account. (x10hosting) The site pulls posts from RSS feeds using FWP.

    If I enable automatic updates, page load times go glacial.
    Also, I get suspended for “excessive resource usage”.

    This is because the inbuilt scheduler “wp-cron” only looks for jobs either just before, or just after EVERY loaded each page. Exactly when you don’t want it to.

    The solution is to run FWP updates as a REAL cron job.

    I was so chuffed to get this working (and it’s simple!), that I wrote a comprehensive blog entry on how to do it..

    Updating Feedwordpress by a REAL Cron Job

    It’s working on my website Supercars-For-Sale.Com, and FWP gets updated every four hours via a REAL cron job. In fact, wp-cron is disabled..

    http://ww.wp.xz.cn/extend/plugins/feedwordpress/

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  • literaty

    (@literaty)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    I am setting up a news aggregation. I suspect that the workload would be high to server, but not sure how high until reading your post. Will try your method. Thanks!

    seven26

    (@seven26)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    I am going to give it a try, because I had the same issues with feedwordpress, I am very close to abandon that project or at least postpone it because it literally kills the server

    Thread Starter q292u

    (@q292u)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Alas, it may all have been in vain..
    x10hosting have blocked outgoing traffic on port 80 from php..
    That means that NONE of my RSS calls work, and no new posts are being created. As it’s a global thing, I can’t redirect the calls around it.
    🙁
    Apparently, they are creating a “whitelist” of addresses to unblock, so I’m in touch with their admin people, regarding getting the RSS address enabled.

    More hassle I don’t need. I’m also evaluating alternative hosting..

    seven26

    (@seven26)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    if you are serious get your own hosting. There are a bunch of very good hosts out there, do a little research ask around and get yourself a hosting.
    I searched here http://activewebstudio.com/ and went with amerinoc for a replacement to dreamhost, where I had very bad experiences especially with wordpress

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