Title: wp-cron.php overloading my server
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# wp-cron.php overloading my server

 *  [rhythim](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rhythim/)
 * (@rhythim)
 * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-cronphp-overloading-my-server/)
 * My host, Servint, is telling me that my my very large dedicated server is being
   brought to a slow crawl at least twice every day by scheduled cron jobs triggered
   in the wp-cron.php. They claim that the wp-cron.php is running a script on all
   of my sites at once, at the same times, and since I have hundreds of WP sites
   on that server, they say it maxes out my RAM and CPU usage loads during these
   hours.
 * I don’t know why this wp-cron.php script would run at the same moment on hundreds
   of sites, instead of being naturally staggered, but if that is indeed the culprit,
   they’re saying I either need to find a line in the code that allows me to stagger
   the times manually, or spend hundreds more a month for an even bigger dedicated
   server with more RAM.
 * Any wisdom & help with this would be greatly appreciated, thanks
 * RE

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