[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #47223: Site Health Check: "last missed cron" test too aggressive

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#47223: Site Health Check: "last missed cron" test too aggressive
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 Reporter:  DavidAnderson                        |       Owner:
                                                 |  peterwilsoncc
     Type:  defect (bug)                         |      Status:  closed
 Priority:  normal                               |   Milestone:  5.3
Component:  Site Health                          |     Version:  5.2
 Severity:  normal                               |  Resolution:  fixed
 Keywords:  site-health has-patch has-unit-      |     Focuses:
  tests commit                                   |
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Comment (by DavidAnderson):

 Should WP work overtime to overcome crazy things that hosting companies
 say or do? Well, to some extent, yes, it's good to make software that
 "just works" no matter how hostile the environment. But ultimately, you
 can't square a circle. Two cron jobs per hour, and any non-trivial
 WordPress site's list of cron jobs that it wants to run, are
 mathematically incompatible. One plus one cannot be made to equal however-
 many-dozen.

 The kindest intepretation is that Siteground have just followed a piece of
 popular "folk knowledge" about WP Cron and its supposed performance impact
 if run externally. But in fact, it has no detectable performance
 difference compared to when run via the normal mechanism, assuming that
 your website actually has visitors.

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