do you know how other do autocron ?

Fri, 31 Jul 2015 11:26:37 +0000

when a cron request starts, it needs a requester not leaving the page. Else the process initiated is stopped.

The only way I found is to take the opportunity of a great download.
It's not realistic... if the downloader changes his mind and stops the download before the end of the task, the process is killed after some seconds

I have many solutions using smart servers , even if they don't cron explicitely but I'm still looking for a real independant autocron. I don't forget that 1.000.000 calls / day cost less than 10 $ / month ( small machine without apache, juste cron and mysql )

Splitting a cron task is rarely a good idea. Ie for dbsave, the database dumper, there is the risk to get a not coherent database

Do you know how other do ( without any root server trick , some webmasters are not sure to get their help ) ?

thank you for your tips

edit : I found a solution, where QA calls itself and both session use socket properties to get working the needed time

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do you know how other do autocron ?