Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 08/22/06 11:00

mich dobelman wrote:
> I am developing a web crawler which collects info from more than 50,0000
> pages.
> but i am afraid this is going to clog the rental web server if I run it
> every single day.
>
> Is it possible to stop the web hosting server because of my program?
>
> MD
>
>
>
>

Of course you can. Anyone on the server can, with a poorly written
script. For instance,

<?php
for ($i = 0; $i < 10; $i--) {
// Do something here not requiring I/O
}

Will tie up the server for a while (I know from experience :-) ).

Because of this, most shared hosts keep the max execution time of PHP
scripts rather short, like 30 seconds. That way a single script can't
screw things up for too long.


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