Title: [Plugin: WP-Crontrol] Understanding WP-Control
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# [Plugin: WP-Crontrol] Understanding WP-Control

 *  [Happyworker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/happyworker/)
 * (@happyworker)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-crontrol-understanding-wp-control/)
 * First off thanks for making this plugin available. I came across it
    because 
   my shared host recently has been shutting down my site because I’m overloading
   their servers’ CPU. After investigating I found that it was my wordpress wp-cron
   that was causing this chaos. I’m hoping you can help shed some light on your 
   plugin and how it interacts with the wp-cron.php file. I’ve loaded your plugin,
   have it working but just want to make sure I understand a few things first.
 * 1. If the wp-cron gets loaded every time someone hits my site, and
    say I get
   2 hits within 1 minute of each other, wouldn’t the set intervals (see attachment)
   run kind of over-laping each other? 2. If this is not the case, what would be
   a good interval to set based on my attached screenshot?
 * If you could help that would be great.
    My host has shut my site down 3 times
   in the past week, and I’m getting a bit frustrated.
 * Cheers,
    Jake
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-crontrol/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wp-crontrol/)

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 *  [The Hack Repair Guy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tvcnet/)
 * (@tvcnet)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-crontrol-understanding-wp-control/#post-3051187)
 * I wrote this for the very same situation I was experiencing with some of my other
   clients. Hopefully you’ll find this helpful:
    [http://hackrepair.com/how-can-i-improve-the-performance-of-my-wordpress-website](http://hackrepair.com/how-can-i-improve-the-performance-of-my-wordpress-website)
 *  [Tevya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thefiddler/)
 * (@thefiddler)
 * [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-crontrol-understanding-wp-control/#post-3051226)
 * I’ve got a similar situation where wp-cron is out of control. I’m using multisite,
   and so a simple real cron job like you suggest won’t help. Any other ideas? With
   the WP-Control plugin help me tame it?

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## Tags

 * [cron](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/cron/)
 * [wp-control](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wp-control/)

 * 2 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tevya](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thefiddler/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-wp-crontrol-understanding-wp-control/#post-3051226)
 * Status: not a support question