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[Linkster]

Thanks for the replies - UW - Ive got to ask - how much bogging down really occurs updating feeds - seems it would be less than updating and rotating thumbs on a tgp maybe? Id be real interested in what kind of server loads we would be talking about?

[Useless]

Originally Posted by Linkster

Thanks for the replies - UW - Ive got to ask - how much bogging down really occurs updating feeds

I use FeedWordPress on a couple of sites for feed syndication and it - the script - moves very slowly. How much of that is due to server performance - I really don't know. When I see a script crawling like that, I assume it's impacting the server itself, but I may be very wrong. A lot is going on though, while a blog is being updated. The syndication script is polling the various feeds' servers for updates, adding new posts to the blog's datatbase, and WP is pinging an array of other sites to tell them that your blog has just updated. I may be very wrong about a server impact since it could be the communication between your server and all those other servers which causes the delay. Honestly, this is the first time I have ever given the entire process this much thought. Any other time I just sit here thinking, "fuck, this is slow".

FeedWordPress would require a cronjob in order to perform the updates automatically. There is another syndication plugin called WP-Autoblog that uses WP's fake cron (I think) and will auto update on it's own. I didn't have any luck with that one, but that's probably because I didn't apply the correct settings to it. I think that's the one Walrus uses quite successfully though.

[walrus]

Originally Posted by Useless Warrior

FeedWordPress would require a cronjob in order to perform the updates automatically. There is another syndication plugin called WP-Autoblog that uses WP's fake cron (I think) and will auto update on it's own. I didn't have any luck with that one, but that's probably because I didn't apply the correct settings to it. I think that's the one Walrus uses quite successfully though.

Originally I used FeedWordPress but was having a problem with it duplicating posts from some of the sponsor feeds I was using. Couldn't figure out what was causing it since the same sponsor feeds were working on other blogs. I haven't had that problem with WP-Autoblog.

But thats neither here nor there since you eluded to using a different program for actually aggregating your feeds into blogs.