I think Heroku is actually using EC2 as their back-end, so there should be no price benefit of Heroku over EC2, unless Heroku’s payments model is much more convenient.

About 2 years ago, that got shortened to 10 minutes. This was OK, and still allowed for reasonable development.

In the last few days, it appears to have been shortened to 40 seconds. (At least on the sever I’m on.)

This is such a drastic clampdown, that it’s barely enough to run even dumbo-standard PHP scripts, let alone some more adventurous jobs.

I hope there is a sizable backlash to this one.

nice tar -xzvf myHugeFile.tar.gz &

Also, please don’t use foul or offensive language – you know, children nowadays have access to Internet much earlier in their lives than we did. I’ve slightly edited your comment to make it PG or even G-compatible

You should do what I say because you’ve got more money than me and mommy says that’s not fair.

So quit trying to grow your business and gimme gimme gimme.

Instead of complaining – maybe choose a different hosting plan instead?

hosting is a commodity and is subject to market prices. If you want more CPU time, pay for a dedicated server and stop thinking that other people are obligated to serve you with no or minimal profit. They are offering you more options and hence abundance in your life. Be grateful instead of complaining that they missed one of your little needs.

I’ve got nothing against you personally but please do think from their perspective.

Note: comment edited by blog owner to remove/soften foul language.

eg.

define ( ‘START_TIME’, time() );

….
….

$handle = @fopen( $filename, “r” );
if ($handle)
{
dlog( “fseek: {$this->getStart()}”);
fseek( $handle, $this->getStart() );
$count=0;
while (!feof($handle))
{
$buffer = fgets($handle, 8192);
echo $buffer;
ob_flush();
if ( (!(++$count % 20)) && ((time()-START_TIME) > 540) )
{
exit;
}
}
}
fclose($handle);

…

thanks for sharing.
I guess DB restoration is very easy with their “backup/restore” functions (well, it should be).

I haven’t yet tried the new SSH access GoDaddy has on offer – to enable it, I have to accept a phone call from US

I have been trying to find the bug for a while now. I had a CPU intensive cron job that never finished, now I know why.

If you have SSH access, you can sometimes see “terminated” being printed after 20 seconds or so when you run the script.

that won’t show anything, as “sleeping” doesn’t consume CPU time as actively as an infinite loop – so this just is not the CPU time you would be trying to measure with this PHP script.

Moreover, as my little experiment with an infinite loop did work, there is no need in any additional testing.

sleep(10);
echo ‘The script has been running for 10 seconds’;
sleep(10);
echo ‘the script has been running for 20 seconds’;
sleep(10);
echo ‘the script has been running for 30 seconds’;

Etcetera? Not sure, just an idea.
Cheers,
Sid