Multiple phplist crontabs or one giant crontab?

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I have a cronjob

0-59/5 * * * * /usr/local/bin/phplist_FIRST -pprocessqueue > /dev/null 2>&1

which runs the following command /usr/local/bin/phplist_FIRST

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/php /var/www/FIRST_WEBSITE.org/public_html/lists/admin/index.php -c /var/www/FIRST_WEBSITE.org/public_html/lists/config/config.php $*

And everything works fine.

but I want to run a second phplist, so should I add and extra line to this

#!/bin/bash
/usr/bin/php /var/www/FIRST_WEBSITE.org/public_html/lists/admin/index.php -c /var/www/FIRST_WEBSITE.org/public_html/lists/config/config.php $*
/usr/bin/php /var/www/SECOND_WEBSITE.co.uk/public_html/lists/admin/index.php -c /var/www/SECOND_WEBSITE.co.uk/public_html/lists/config/config.php $*

or run a separate cron?

Its on a server which isn’t very powerful so I don’t want to end up running two phplist instances at the same time if i can help it…

At the moment I’m running a second cron at times that hopefully won’t clash with with the first.

7,19,32,44,57 * * * * /usr/local/bin/phplist_SECOND -pprocessqueue > /dev/null 2>&1

Is there a better solution?

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Even on a powerful server, I find it better to run jobs in smaller bytes. I start the jobs at the top and bottom of every hour and run them for 25 minutes before resetting. This gives the system 5 minutes to reset before starting the next job. I also do a cleanup at 10:15 every morning so I auto process any bounces. All this is very easy when done with CRON jobs.

Good Luck,

Doug