Question

I am developing an auction site that requires maintenance scripts to be run in the background to ensure smooth running. Things such as ending auctions, starting auctions, etc…

There seem to be many options and no definite answers when I research the subject.

Is there a standard for doing this sort of thing? My research so far has uncovered these possibilities:

PHP and CRON, too slow, no evidence of anyone else using this method?

MYSQL stored procedures: don’t want to deal with MYSQL language

BASH script???

C script???

I hope that someone with experience can inform me of pros and cons that I am missing, other things to think about when deciding which method to use, etc…

Speed (and efficiency) are very important.

Thanks!

Answer 1

I have a site that does some pretty intensive maintenance using PHP + Cron. I would recommend that since you can reuse libraries from the main application. In what way is php too slow?

Unless you doing som serious number crunching in the application, most of the burden is on the database. In that case only Bash/cscript would have worse performance than php.