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Hello Michael,

That is definitely a possibility. We have clients that do this on a regular basis when they’re expecting a temporary spike in traffic. Just put in a ticket and we can get this taken care of for you. It would be best if you arranged this before the actual time period that you needed it for as a short downtime is required in order to upgrade your VPS.

When dealing with a script issue the best way to get the error output is to simply execute the file that is having issues on the server itself. In this case, the hoops_web.py is erroring out so if you login via SSH to your account and execute the script it will return the actual error.

I can see by your account that the script is already chmod’d to 755, so running it by typing the following into my bash terminal returns the following error:

[~/public_html]# ./hoops_web.py

./hoops_web.py: line 19: syntax error near unexpected token `(‘
./hoops_web.py: line 19: `urls = (‘

In this way you can see that there’s a syntax error on line 19 of the script which will need to be resolved before it’ll work as intended.

Now, in regards to redirecting the stderr output to a file, you can do this by simply executing the script like so:

[~/public_html]# ./hoops_web.py 2> error.log

By appending the 2> error.log you’re telling bash that you want to redirect the stderr output to the file error.log, which you can then open in your text editor of choice.

I hope that helps.

Hello,

Please see our Resource Usage Policy at http://www.site5.com/legal/resource-usage/standard/ for our guidelines on email under the “Email and Mailing Lists” section. Any and all email being sent from our shared/reseller servers falls under these guidelines.

Our VPS’s have a separate Resource Usage Policy at the following URL which is free of many of the limits of shared hosting:

http://www.site5.com/legal/resource-usage/vps-and-dedicated/

Sorry, one correction!

0 2 0 0 3 would actually be * 2 * * 3

Hey Mike,

Cron jobs are laid out as follows:

* * * * * command to be executed
– – – – –
| | | | |
| | | | +—– day of week (0 – 6) (Sunday=0)
| | | +——- month (1 – 12)
| | +——— day of month (1 – 31)
| +———– hour (0 – 23)
+————- min (0 – 59)

You can do this either from SSH in your account or from your SiteAdmin/CPanel under the Cron Jobs section. If from SSH, just do the following:

crontab -e

This will open a command prompt. Then, insert the following line:

0 2 0 0 3 nice -n15 cp /home/USER/public_html/somefile.php /home/USER/public_html/somefolder/

Just modify the string as necessary. If you’re copying a folder, use “cp -fr” instead of just “cp”. Or, if you’ll be replacing the same file each day – then you’d need at least cp -f.

From SiteAdmin/CPanel you’d just enter in the appropriate time to execute the command and save. The new cron job will be automatically executed from then on.

Hope that answered your question!