TPerry
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After helping out another admin, it was discovered that his hosting provider does not allow any CRON jobs to be created at a less than 5 minute interval. Apparently (from some research) other major hosting companies do the same.
This can cause an issue if you have a site that is not busy (a new site) as you get warnings in the ACP about certain CRON jobs not being ran since you can only use the activity choice, with no/minimal activity it causes issues.
There are external CRON services that can be used, and at least one competitor script, which also uses a similar process to run CRON jobs, has the ability to link with an external provider to run CRON jobs.
Some examples of these services are:
cronjob.org (free)
EasyCron (paid)
FastCron (paid)
For those admins that don't have a busy enough site to trigger the CRON processes, and who cannot set a cron job of any less than 5 minutes between runs, this could be a viable option.
This can cause an issue if you have a site that is not busy (a new site) as you get warnings in the ACP about certain CRON jobs not being ran since you can only use the activity choice, with no/minimal activity it causes issues.
There are external CRON services that can be used, and at least one competitor script, which also uses a similar process to run CRON jobs, has the ability to link with an external provider to run CRON jobs.
Some examples of these services are:
cronjob.org (free)
EasyCron (paid)
FastCron (paid)
For those admins that don't have a busy enough site to trigger the CRON processes, and who cannot set a cron job of any less than 5 minutes between runs, this could be a viable option.
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