Thread: General advice about ad pruning / cron job

General advice about ad pruning / cron job

I wanted to know if there are any particular requirements (like a minimum system requirements) needed on web hosts' servers for ad pruning to take place correctly?

I had two websites (I'm not going to name the hosts), one website with host 1, and the other website with host 2.

Ad pruning was fine with host 1.

Ad pruning did not happen with host 2, or at least if it did, I was not getting confirmation emails. As well as my setting in WP-Admin to set ad pruning to yes, host 2 had to set up a schedule task using this command:

/usr/bin/php5 /home/sites/********.com/public_html/wp-cron.php

However, I still get errors.

Eventually, I closed the website with host 2 as I no longer needed it, and for cost reasons, I transferred my website from host 1 to host 2, and now the prune ads is not working again. This shows that it's not a CP or WP issue as it was fine on the previous hosts, so..........there must be something different on my hosting service from host 1 to host 2.

I'm sorry if this is a little complicated and I will try to explain better if needed, but the question still remains......are there any system requirements for prune ads to run successfully??


Many thanks.