{"id":45980,"date":"2025-09-09T08:15:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-09T06:15:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/?p=45980"},"modified":"2025-10-22T11:41:02","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T09:41:02","slug":"high-server-load-due-to-wp-cron-php-post-requests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/control-panel\/high-server-load-due-to-wp-cron-php-post-requests\/","title":{"rendered":"How to fix high server load due to wp-cron.php POST requests via the xneelo Control Panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

If your site or server is struggling with high load<\/strong> and you notice many wp-cron.php POST requests<\/strong> in the www logs, then the solution is simple: replace the virtual wp-cron with a real cron<\/strong> at your selected schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n

WordPress uses a file called <\/span>wp-cron.php<\/i> to handle scheduled tasks<\/strong>. By default, it runs every time someone visits your site, which can put unnecessary strain on your CPU and slow down busy sites. Since these tasks don\u2019t need to run continuously, you can reduce how often they run and free up valuable hosting resources.<\/span><\/p>\n

Instead of letting wp-cron<\/em> slow down your site, you can disable it and let your system handle scheduled tasks in the background with a cron job.<\/p>\n","protected":false,"plain":"If your site or server is struggling with high load<\/strong> and you notice many wp-cron.php POST requests<\/strong> in the www logs, then the solution is simple: replace the virtual wp-cron with a real cron<\/strong> at your selected schedule.<\/span>\r\n\r\nWordPress uses a file called <\/span>wp-cron.php<\/i> to handle scheduled tasks<\/strong>. By default, it runs every time someone visits your site, which can put unnecessary strain on your CPU and slow down busy sites. Since these tasks don\u2019t need to run continuously, you can reduce how often they run and free up valuable hosting resources.<\/span>\r\n\r\nInstead of letting wp-cron<\/em> slow down your site, you can disable it and let your system handle scheduled tasks in the background with a cron job."},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Instead of letting wp-cron slow down your site, you can disable it and let your system handle scheduled tasks with a cron job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"lsx_disable_title":"0","_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16598],"tags":[23795,23780,23777,23783,21419],"topics":[10371],"class_list":["post-45980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-control-panel","tag-wp-cron","tag-high-load","tag-wp-cron-php-post","tag-cronjob","tag-create-cronjob","topics-wordpress"],"acf":[],"additional_meta":{"category_title":[{"term_id":16598,"name":"Control panel","slug":"control-panel","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":16598,"taxonomy":"category","description":"Our new control panel is secure and simple, with you at the heart of our technology.<\/span><\/i>","parent":0,"count":161,"filter":"raw","term_order":"3","cat_ID":16598,"category_count":161,"category_description":"Our new control panel is secure and simple, with you at the heart of our technology.<\/span><\/i>","cat_name":"Control panel","category_nicename":"control-panel","category_parent":0}],"tag_title":[{"term_id":23795,"name":"wp cron","slug":"wp-cron","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23795,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"227"},{"term_id":23780,"name":"high load","slug":"high-load","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23780,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"231"},{"term_id":23777,"name":"wp-cron.php POST","slug":"wp-cron-php-post","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23777,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"232"},{"term_id":23783,"name":"cronjob","slug":"cronjob","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":23783,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":1,"filter":"raw","term_order":"233"},{"term_id":21419,"name":"create cronjob","slug":"create-cronjob","term_group":0,"term_taxonomy_id":21419,"taxonomy":"post_tag","description":"","parent":0,"count":2,"filter":"raw","term_order":"1018"}]},"featured_image_src":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Alexia Papadatos","author_link":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/author\/alexia\/","author_avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/9dc491b1be8ef5ac4a33e742399256d17daf7e6fe70bc88cce1a7bbc06c1a406?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45980"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xneelo.co.za\/help-centre\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=45980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}