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automatic updates not working after switching cron

  • obertscloud

    (@obertscloud)


    6 days, 10 hours ago

    Hi it was recommended by speed experts to disable wp cron and use the system cron from my hostgator account. it did speed up all my websites, but now the scheduled backups are not working.

    so basically
    Minute Hour Day Month Weekday
    4 */6 * * *
    wget -q -O – http://websitelink.com/wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron >/dev/null 2>&1

    can you help me get this working please ?

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  • Plugin Contributor bcrodua

    (@bcrodua)

    5 days, 17 hours ago

    Hi,

    Please could you send us a copy of the latest full backup log?
    This can be found in the UpdraftPlus Existing Backups tab.
    The contents will be too long to post here directly, but you can use an online service such as Dropbox or Pastebin, and post the link here.

    Thanks,
    Bryle

    Thread Starter obertscloud

    (@obertscloud)

    5 days, 2 hours ago

    The last backup was when i had wp-cron enabled on wordpress and not on the server, how would this help you ?

    https://pastebin.com/hnd07prm

    Plugin Author David Anderson

    (@davidanderson)

    5 days, 2 hours ago

    @obertscloud

    > “it was recommended by speed experts to disable wp cron”

    This is bad advice, and should be ignored. I speak as a contributor to the cron code in WordPress core, and a regular core contributor (e.g. check the WordPress 5.8.1 release notes). There is no speed improvement in changing cron method. There is just, usually, less reliability of getting cron tasks run on time.

    David

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