I would like to run a cron job every 5-15 minutes

[schnurstrax]

Hi,

 

I really like your way of hosting, although there is a lot of downtime at the moment. I am sure you will fix whatever problem there is. As I want to host an online game I would like to run a cron job more regularly than it is allowed (every 5 minutes would be best).

 

Thank you

 

schnurstrax

[Ashoat]

Every five minutes is too often. That's all 150 times as often as we let others run cron jobs. We can let you try once every four hours, but if your script starts using too much memory then we'll have to kill it.

 

Why not attach the scheduled task to a normal page execution? If your website is popular enough, it should run relatively on time. It will slow down page loads a little bit, but it seems like your best option.

[schnurstrax]

Yeah I understand the issue, but my cron job does only load a .php. If I attached this to the pageload it might run even more frequently.

 

[Ashoat]

Why would it run earlier? Use timestamps to have it run as often as it should. If it runs through a cron job, resources will not be managed as well as they would if it loaded through Apache.