hi the place im hosting my website at only allows crons at 5 minute intervals what should i do?

 

 

i only use my forum for blogs so i always get that warning to use crons

5 minutes is sufficient for most community tasks.

It’s fine. Certain activities may take longer to complete such as mass deleting content which is done in batches via tasks. But it won’t “break” your site.  Or if you flag someone as a spammer, it would not actually remove that user and clean up their mess (if any) until the next cron run. 

Edited August 31, 20222 yr by Randy Calvert

We would advise on finding a cron service that can run them at the correct interval, or not using cron (run with traffic instead). While for the most part, things may work fine, we of course have them set to run once a minute for good reason.

9 hours ago, Marc Stridgen said:

We would advise on finding a cron service that can run them at the correct interval, or not using cron (run with traffic instead). While for the most part, things may work fine, we of course have them set to run once a minute for good reason.

i am the only one thats able to post on the website as its only for blogs so i think 5 minutes should be fine no?

IPS official position is that one minute is what it’s standard is. From “real world” experience, it’s fine. You won’t get an OFFICIAL blessing that any other value is fine. You just have to do it and see. 

You can of course set the cron job to only run every 5 minutes, as we cannot override that, but we do specify one minute for a variety reasons. If you are the only one ever posting on your site, it probably won't matter.

Just FYI, I've used the EasyCron service in the past when faced with the same issue of a 5-minute minimum. It only cost about $8 a year, their lowest-cost tier, but allowed 1-minute cron jobs. Something to consider, anyway. 🙂