Configure WP-CRON job?

  • I’m a newbie here and have several blogs sites which somebody has built for me. Apparently, these sites are constantly connecting to Google 24 hrs a day eating up CPU cycles tremendously and has brought the server down many times. The hosting company told me that the cron jobs of all of these sites are running all at once at the same time and need to be configured to run at different times
    (note: I guess because the creator just simply duplicated the scripts from one site to another, that’s why the cron jobs of all of these sites have the same exact time).

    My question is how do I configure them to run at different times? Which file(s) do I need to change and how? what’s the ideal time interval between each site’ cron jobs?

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  • its much easier to answer that question if you explain what IS connecting to Google, since wp-cron, prima facea doesnt do that. In other words, you are using a plugin — and it may have some sort of internal setting

    Thread Starter domainsvillage

    (@domainsvillage)

    It’s basically RSS update from Google news. My hosting company told me that these cron jobs that have scheduled jobs to update the info are all running at the same time, which is causing it to reach the maximum amount of processes on the server and bring the entire sites down.

    you repeated yourself unnecessarily, and didnt answer my question.

    Is it a plugin? Is it a widget? WHAT are you using to grab the feeds.

    Cronjobs .. are ONE thing, and thats not a function of WordPress thats a function of crontab, a utility that exists on every NIX based box. If you need to adjust the settings on that, you go in via telnet or SSH and you invoke crontab from a command line.

    If you dont have telnet/SSH access, then you can usually adjust any crontabs via whatever admin panel you have.

    wp-cron is something else all together. HENCE my questions.

    Hello! I just got a notice from my host a cron job is causing a lot of “high load”.. I have several self-hosted WP blogs on my site.

    Plugins are Akismet and feedburner for RSS.

    I use my feed with “widgetbox” and feedburner’s widgets.

    Anyone got any ideas?

    Well, in my case, there was another program outside of wordpress running and I turned it off. Hopefully, my provider will give me the all-clear!

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