{"id":693,"date":"2010-10-09T23:49:54","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T03:49:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/?p=693"},"modified":"2019-12-01T13:09:19","modified_gmt":"2019-12-01T21:09:19","slug":"your-host-does-not-support-cron-jobs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/your-host-does-not-support-cron-jobs\/","title":{"rendered":"Your Host Does Not Support Cron Jobs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Question<\/strong>: You ask what to do if your host does not support cron jobs?<\/p>\n<p><strong>Short answer<\/strong>: You may want to switch your hosting company.<\/p>\n<p>The basic idea of a cron jobs is that it allows you to run scheduled tasks, that run automatically, frequently, silently, in the background, without requiring manual intervention.<\/p>\n<p>DAP uses cron jobs to do things like&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Send out autoresponder emails<\/li>\n<li>Send out broadcast emails<\/li>\n<li>Manage your outgoing queue of emails so that you can stay within your cheap web host&#8217;s strict hourly email sending limits<\/li>\n<li>Process and manage affiliate data &amp; commissions , and<\/li>\n<li>Do some clean up jobs<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Any membership plugin that offers email broadcasts, autoresponders and other bulk tasks, will likely ask you to set up cron jobs for sending out emails. You couldn&#8217;t possibly send out an email blast to even 500 members in real time as your browser will timeout.<\/p>\n<p>DAP requires you to set up a cron job to do all of the tasks above.<\/p>\n<p>If yours doesn&#8217;t, seriously you have only 2 choices&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Stick to your host but lose the ability to use powerful scripts like DAP.<\/li>\n<li>Or do the smart thing and move to a better host. There are plenty of good ones out there, and there are a few we <a href=\"http:\/\/www.digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/dap-certified-web-hosts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">recommend highly<\/a>, and they&#8217;re very inexpensive.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Question: You ask what to do if your host does not support cron jobs? Short answer: You may want to switch your hosting company. The basic idea of a cron jobs is that it allows you to run scheduled tasks, that run automatically, frequently, silently, in the background, without requiring manual intervention. DAP uses cron [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[25,74,21,26,48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=693"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6053,"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/693\/revisions\/6053"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/digitalaccesspass.com\/doc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}