Ken,
Sometimes cfschedule is just a necessity...however, you don't have to have access to the admin to set one up. Just use cfschedule. You could possibly make a little CFC with DB table that would handle what is currently schedule and to manipulate it as well. Are scheduled tasks bogging down the server? Is that why they have asked you to lighten the load?
Regarding debugging IPs and datasources...there are ways around not using the admin either - however they are undocumented and may or may not work in future versions of CF (I'm talking about MX here...I'm assuming that is what you are using). One my providers likes to turn off debugging on me (despite that my contract says it should be on)...I have a little UDF accessed via a form (I can't remember if I wrote a smallish CFC) that turns it back on for me.. I also have a form that allows me to add/remove/view current IP debugging addresses for the machine I'm on. I've seen ways of adding new datasources to CFMX without admin access - although it seems to be easier to do if you have pre-made a template datasource in the admin to copy and modify. I haven't really had the time to play around with datasources and this undocumently way yet. Sorry for not having any links for you at the moment - I'm too lazy to find them at the moment.
Best, .pjf
Ken Dunnington wrote:
This year, we partnered with a local web hosting company and part of the deal was having them handle hosting, email and tech support for our clients. Considering I was doing all this myself, on top of being the only developer for ~60-80 clients, this was understandably a Good Thing. :) But giving up your admin rights comes at a cost - I no longer have access to the CF Admin.
This hasn't proved to be much of a problem, and the team we now work with has been really great about setting up data sources, verity collections, debugging IP's and scheduled tasks. But that can't last. They've asked me to try and find a better way to handle scheduled tasks, and since we use a newsletter system which relies on them, this is somewhat of a high priority for me.
My first step is to eliminate scheduled tasks from as much code as possible - newsletters will get sent when you click 'Go' from now on. We can all live with that. But my question is whether or not anybody can think of an alternative for those times when a scheduled task is just necessary? (For example, I have one run at 1 am every morning to update a verity index, and will need one to run every morning to send out snow conditions for a local ski mountain.)
Any thoughts? - Ken
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