Translations:Relative advantages of bots and server-side tools/11/en

Some servers, especially shared hosts, tend to kill processes after awhile. Thus, if a given maintenance task depends on a bot operating as a continuously running daemon watching wiki activity to see what bot-initiated changes need to be made, the task will be neglected if the bot is killed and there is no way to automatically relaunch it. A server-side tool that is launched through MediaWiki (e.g. through a hook or special page) will not be as susceptible to this problem, depending on the situation. E.g., Extension:InterwikiMap automatically updates at certain intervals, when it is hook-complete>Special:MyLanguage/Manual:Hooks/PageContentSaveComplete|triggered by article saves.