Website: WooCommerce running on Cloudways in a GCE instance
I have a web developer team that routinely audits my site and found from the WP scheduler that several WP-Cron tasks have failed. Sure enough, the log shows tasks listed as either failed or discontinued. When I migrated to Cloudways three year onto a Google Compute Engine instance, they recommended I use their server-side cron since there was a flood of WP-Cron loads when users were browsing the store, adding items to the cart, or checking out. (In the log, about 95% of tasks show as completed.)
I pressed both my dev team and Cloudways for reasoning as to why WP-Cron or server-side cron was preferred. Naturally, the dev team wants to run WP-Cron and Cloudways is adamant for using one of their server crons.
The site works, so I’m leaning toward “*if it isn’t broke, don’t fix it.”* However, I’m also unclear about what’s not running without the WP-Cron. I’m turning to the community to gain additional insight.
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