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Server cron needed?
December 05, 2011, 01:52:24 pm
Hi everyone,

One of my clients is considering to use CiviCRM for his website. I haven't used it before, so I have no experience with it at all. Cron jobs are listed in the requirements (so it must be necessary I suppose), but what about server cron? Our host allows no server cron, just 'web cron', wich means that I can't run local files, only files accessible from the web. Is this compatible? And what cron jobs does Civicrm actually use?

Searched this forum for it, but couldn't find anything.

Thanks for your reply!


Kind regards,

Louren van Garderen

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Re: Server cron needed?
December 05, 2011, 02:44:39 pm
Check out our book for more information, but they are several crons you might want to run based on what you do (civimail, civimember...)

http://en.flossmanuals.net/CiviCRM/

Two warnings:
- In my experience, hosts that limit cron tend to limit other things as well (eg. how many emails per hour, cpu load, memory...). As a rule of thumb, if you have a cheap host provider, you'll have a crappy service and a lot of service on the top to make it kind of work

- running the cron over the web works, but is way less performant than running them using php-cli.

With that being said, it will work if you got small mailings for instance, but don't expect send 10'000th of emails on this configuration

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Re: Server cron needed?
December 07, 2011, 09:20:22 am
In addition to what xavier, said. I will add:

> Is this compatible?

Yes, all CiviCRM cron jobs can be run via a URL.

> And what cron jobs does Civicrm actually use?

There are several and all are technically optional. CiviMail needs one (or two) http://wiki.civicrm.org/confluence/display/CRMDOC40/CiviMail+Installation but only if you want to use that. Updating memberships uses one, if you need that.

In short, the basic functions work without any cron and the crons that you may want can be run via URLs.
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Re: Server cron needed?
December 07, 2011, 10:17:49 am
Quote from: Hershel on December 07, 2011, 09:20:22 am
There are several and all are technically optional. CiviMail needs one (or two)


The second one (to process bounces) isn't needed to send the emails, but if you send emails and never handle the bounces you will be blacklisted as a spammer (rightly so IMO). So for civiMail, count the two as needed ;)

Sidenote: On the 4.1 version, you don't need to provide the password for the user when using the cli mode

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