Hosting account suspended! Anyone had problems with rss2html script?

[AnnaSucks]

I woke up today to notice that one of my hosting accounts (with all my main sites) had been temporarily suspended for a loop in script. I use rss2html script to get a feed from a blog on the main page, and it's been working fine for the past few months, so something's happened overnight.

Rss2html has been recommended here on the board, so I know many of you use it, but have any of you had this problem? Or is there a possibility of a security hole or something? I don't believe there is, but I have changed nothing in this script, so what other options are there?

Thanks

[Babaganoosh]

Check the feeds that you're using. If one of them is slow to the point of being almost unresponsive, rss2html doesn't time out quickly enough and the script will just sit there waiting while a massive feed trickles in.

[klair_di_sardari]

same here!
my hosted suspended me too becz rss2html eats my hosting server....
anyone know script like it???

[AnnaSucks]

Thanks a lot for the explanation! That could well be my problem. It won't be a major problem if I can't use rss in this case, but it was nice to know that there is no serious problems going on!

And klair_di_sardari, just search for rss on this board, I've seen people recommend other similar scripts, but I can't remember any of their names right now.

Thanks again!

[quantum-x]

From looking at the script, I don't think [but I may be wrong: I just gave it a cursorary glance] that it caches the RSS feeds.

Typically, an RSS transaction is as follows:
Every day / hour, your server checks its subscribed feeds, and caches the result. If the feeds have changed from the cached version, it updates. If not, it does nothing.

Your pages then update from your LOCAL copy every time they're loaded.

With RSS2HTML, and a few others of its ilk, I'm assuming [see disclaimer above] - that it does not cache at all - so every time your page loads, it sends out a request to fetch a copy of the RSS feed, process it, and display it.
Not only is this poor form on your end, because you will hammer the other server, but it's also a terrible waste of resources etc on your end.

I can recommend looking into a more fully fledged solution for RSS, such as Chio's stuff, or 'Magpie RSS'

[CIVMatt]

RSS2HTML - I pull it from their server I stopped running the script locally here.

[AnnaSucks]

Originally Posted by quantum-x

With RSS2HTML, and a few others of its ilk, I'm assuming [see disclaimer above] - that it does not cache at all - so every time your page loads, it sends out a request to fetch a copy of the RSS feed, process it, and display it.
Not only is this poor form on your end, because you will hammer the other server, but it's also a terrible waste of resources etc on your end.

I can recommend looking into a more fully fledged solution for RSS, such as Chio's stuff, or 'Magpie RSS'

Thanks for the recommendations, I sure won't continue using rss2html anymore when there is a risk like this involved. In this case both the feed and the script were on my server, so it's going to be easy (although time consuming) to do it manually. But I will definitely look into the alternative options you gave me. Thanks!