We implemented a bit of a automation over xplsv.tv some weeks ago. Until then I was daily picking the video of the day. Now I "map" the month with a selection (still handpicked) of the videos, and then our php system does all the mailings at 00:00 every day. You wouldn't believe what a relief it was after doing the hand picking of a video every day during 4 years :S!

When we were thinking about how to implement the feature we considered setting up a Cron on the hosting, however, we quickly guessed that if the site had about 207,045 hits per day (207,045/24/60/60 = 2.39), so 2 hits per second, these are enough visits as to make the user launch these actions indirectly when visiting the site I would say ;)

The funny thing is that after checking the logs, most of the times the user agent of who launched the action happens to be a bot. So, who needs a Cron when we have Google bot? ;)

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