How self automated is your website?

codefreek · 06-16-2009, 11:53 PM

so, i was just wondering i know there is many ways to make your, site work without you checking everyday, so my question is, what do you use to make your site more automated and have you set, up a libary for multiple website tasks. If(you own many websites) that is.

-Cf

Wildhoney · 06-17-2009, 12:22 AM

I have one website, and actually a collection of child websites, too, that are 100% automated. They do absolutely all sorts every single day. Trawl many websites and put the data together

Lots of crontabs working in the background, and I don't have to interrupt the process at all.

Enfernikus · 06-17-2009, 12:29 AM

When I'm doing a client website I automate as much as possible, everything that cannot be updated the system is tied in with an iPhone app, blackberry app, or just email to remind the client to do these things or let them do it from any location they might want.

Automation is key, without it you may present too much options which may end up very well making things a mess. But on my own personal site? It updates itself, I haven't done anything to it in a week I just make sure everything is running smoothly

codefreek · 06-17-2009, 01:01 AM

Wildhoney got any tips and tricks about useful things for site automation, some tutorial, i should read i would be grateful ;)

-Cf
@Enfernikus
Thanks for the input ;)

PS: If anyone has good tutorials(etc) anything on this subject i would be grateful

ryanmr · 06-17-2009, 04:51 AM

Since I have shared hosting, I don't have cron access. Instead however, I setup my systems to react to the traffic that each site encounters. It bases its automation on that traffic.

I've seen very bloated solutions for automation but usually the easiest way to is to have a little randomly spawned php request initialize the automated system.

codefreek · 06-19-2009, 05:28 PM

Thanks for some answers,
more, would be great :D
any tutorials or so on would be great..

ETbyrne · 06-19-2009, 09:57 PM

I set my site up (which by the way had a recent face lift!) to email me when someone comments so I never have to check it anymore.

Jim · 06-23-2009, 09:05 AM

I have a website which updates itself by cronjobs, i never have to check it and users will find new content every 15 minutes :)