Hello everyone,

I have few questions regarding a node application I'm trying to create and 
optimize.

Basically the application pulls down a set of rss/atom feeds 
from different news websites, check for new articles and post them into a 
facebook page or send some kind of notifications (I have a mongodb to keep 
track of the ones that I have already gotten). I'm trying to optimize this 
thing as much as I can, and do the minimum amount of rss 
fetching through the day. 

The websites I'm interested in, do not update their news at the same 
frequency some updates in every 1-2 hours and some takes more than that; so 
I need separated updater for each website or group. I first used cronJob 
module and set a different frequency for each updater; but then I realized 
I can still lower the frequency at night time because there were no 
updates; but I couldn't do that with cron job.

Some of these websites cover the same kind of news, so if one updates, it's 
highly expected that the other one will update shortly.. also they tend to 
post bunch of news at the same time, so if I get an update I should check 
back soon.

What do you think of my current set up, and how can I improve it?
How would I be able run the updater with different frequency based on 
custom conditions? are there any existing tools or modules? I dont want to 
have to manage bunch of timeouts and callbacks..
When running an updater, is it better to start a process and kill it when 
it's done? or to have a single process running all time and uses setTimeout 
to sleep?

Thanks
-Hady

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