Cron job via HTTP or PHP

[Anonymous]

Hello,

I have a problem with the wordpress cron jobs becouse the wp-cron.php is not being run often enough. So I set up a PHP cron job on my cPanel. But the cron job doesn’t work on shared hosting by bluehost. The problem is described here: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/48611926/bluehost-cronjob-setting-changes-without-my-intervention
Yes, it is a 5-year-old problem and bluehost still doesn’t have a solution for it.

So i’m thinking about using a free external site for executing the cron file every minute. But I read about that a cron job should not be done via an HTTP request but a direct execution of PHP to avoid hindering the web server’s capacity or generating additional memory overhead on the network layer.

What do you think about this? Will I expereince serious problems with my site if I let the cron job done via HTTP every minute?

Thank you for your support.

[Stefano]

Hi, it can be triggered via HTTP, not problems usually, just set the corn call to https://yoursite.com/wp-cron.php.

Here we collected some tips: https://www.thenewsletterplugin.com/documentation/troubleshooting/newsletter-delivery-engine/

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