[Typo3-dev] Typo3 alternative to cron (?)

[Robert Markula]

Kraft Bernhard wrote:
> Robert Markula wrote:
> 
> 
>> Problem is, not every Web-Hoster allows you to use cron, althought it 
>> would be theoretically possible (for an additional fee, of course).
> 
> 
> If you have such a restrictive Web-Hoster he will most probably have set 
> the
> max_execution_time of an php-script and not allowed to reset it in the 
> script.
You sure this is the way it is done? Because some web-hosters offer a 
limited number of cron jobs, e.g. 10 cron-jobs. But, ah well, I'm not 
very familiar with cron.

> So you won't be able to create a cron-daemon in php.
> 
> 
> In my opinion the best solution so far was to use a "external" cron job 
> on another
> server and let it retrieve a specific .php script from a secured 
> directoy (with secured
> I mean that just the cron-job-server-IP has access to this script)
> 
> So you don't depend on any cron-job installed on the server which runs 
> typo3 but you still
> require some other server which runs typo3 and can get a website from 
> the hosting-server.
I'm sure this is one way to go, but still quite a quirk. An integrated 
solution would be simpler.

Cheers,
Ro