Will this get me suspended?

[Elite]

I'm currently working on a php project that will require the following:

1. Download a remote xml file
2. Parse the XML file and insert/update the local database
3. Download an image for each item in the xml feed
4. Create a thumbnail of the image

The xml file may contain up to 200(ish) items, and would be polled at most daily.

I wanted to check if this is likely to impact on other users on my server, the xml is not time critical, so I'm more than happy to run it when the servers are quiet and put some pauses in to keep things under control.

I know it is difficult to say without seeing the code, but is this do-able with shared hosting or should I be looking at a move to a VPS?

Thanks for any feedback

[AndrewT]

Doing that many that often will likely raise an issue with us. It may be workable if you were able to spread it out much more.

[Elite]

Doing that many that often will likely raise an issue with us. It may be workable if you were able to spread it out much more.

Thanks for the amazingly quick (as ever) response. I thought that would probably be the case.

< Runs off to beg client for more cash