RSS Feed Updates very slowly

  • printoolz

    (@printoolz)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    Is it normal that the RSS feed widget only updates every 12 hours or so? I’d really like to have my news feeds update almost immediately. The RSS feeds are all from WordPress blogz. Geez, even iWeb updates the very same RSS feeds immediately! So is there an alternate widget that will do the job better? I tried KB Advanced RSS Widget but it actually inexplicably disappears on me. I enter the RSS feed and nothing shows up on the site, and then when I go back to the widgets page, the widget is no longer where I placed it. So I gave up on that idea. BTW the disappearing widget phenomenon has happened intermittently with other widgets, so that may be a separate problem except it ALMOST ALWAYS happens with the KB widget. Help!

    SB

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    16 years, 1 month ago

    Is it normal that the RSS feed widget only updates every 12 hours or so?

    Yes. Updating a feed too frequently places too great a strain on the host site and can have the same effect as a Denial of Service attack in extreme cases.

    Thread Starter printoolz

    (@printoolz)

    16 years ago

    If that’s the case, why did I never experience the problem when the site was hosted on .mac instead of WordPress? I switched to GoDaddy in part because the .mac servers seemed slow (as well as being SEO unfriendly).

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    16 years ago

    It’s not a matter of the feeds being generated. Just like with your iWeb site, the feeds are generated by WordPress almost instantly. Your RSS widget, however, only refreshes the feed that it is syndicating once every twelve hours. This to prevent unnecessary server load that may be caused by syndicating several feeds with very frequent updates.

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