Staggering Execution With Sleep()
For my site, currently in development, I will be hosting some latest RSS picks from friend websites. To start with there will only be a couple, but eventually I hope to be sourcing from up to 50 partner blogs.
Obviously, i dont want to make a request on every page load, so I would instead cache data from the past half hour/hour.
I will be using CRON to schedule an update every so often, but having a single script making 50 requests one after the other then processing and storing the data may be taxing, especially if the outside server is slow.
I thought about using sleep() to leave gaps between each request so that a sudden hogging of resources doesnt happen every hour.
What are your views on this method? Is it feasable (and possibly even a good idea), or should I just get it all to execute in one go?
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