Hi,

The scheduler only runs when the site runs, so when the site isn't visited that much, the application pool shuts down and the scheduled task isn't running. However Umbraco keeps itself alive using a keealive.aspx page that gets called every minute. When I was developing the scheduled task feature for CMSImport PRO, I had scheduled an rss import that executed every hour an every hour I got the email that the import was finished, so I think it's stable enough. My site only has a few visitors a day and that's enough to keep the scheduled task running.

Cheers,

Richard

You can of course also schedule your homepage to be visited every 5 minutes which will likely keep the app-pool alive on low-traffic sites :)

@Alex, Yes you can do that, in fact Umbraco does that internally using the scheduled publishing mechanism, however sometimes a server gets rebooted and then the website needs a manual ping to get started. I'm so looking forward to .net 4.0 that can start websites automatically.

Cheers,

Richard

I always use the Task Scheduler within Windows to get around the 'recycle app pool' problem.

Made a 'vbs' file with the following content to open a url as task:

Call LogEntry()

Sub LogEntry()

        'Force the script to finish on an error.
        On Error Resume Next

        'Declare variables
        Dim objRequest
        Dim URL

        Set objRequest = CreateObject("Microsoft.XMLHTTP")

        'Put together the URL link appending the Variables.
        URL = "http://someurl.com/some-path"

        'Open the HTTP request and pass the URL to the objRequest object
        objRequest.open "POST", URL , false

        'Send the HTML Request
        objRequest.Send

        'Set the object to nothing
        Set objRequest = Nothing

End Sub

We do a hard reset of the application pool every night. Should this cause any problems if I want to use the TaskScheduler?

Hi Jeroen,

Not if you website is pinged afterwards (so the application poll starts again).

Cheers,

Richard

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