My cron jobs are blocked and my WordPress site can't get new cache

[samafzali]

Website URL: samafzali.wuaze.com

Problem: My cron jobs are getting blocked and my WordPress site can’t get new cache and the WP Crontrol plugin is getting a 403 error and my site’s cron jobs and cache are all messed up and not working properly.

WP Crontrol plugin error text: There was a problem calling your site’s WP-Cron system. This means that your site’s WP-Cron events may not be working. Problem: Unexpected HTTP response code: 403

Please fix it.

[Jri-Creator]

Hello, and Welcome to the InfinityFree Forum!

Cron Job Feature is now disabled

As of today, the 9th August 2023, the Cron Jobs feature is disabled. In collaboration with iFastNet, we have determined that a large number of cron jobs were running a very frequently on invalid URLs, or sites that were not actively being used. This resulted in a lot of server power being spent on cron jobs that didn’t work, or were running on sites that were not actively being used. This had gotten so bad that some cron jobs dramatically overloaded some servers causing performance degradation …

[samafzali]

Now that it is disabled, does it affect my SEO and site performance? What should I do? Does it affect the site cache? And I wrote a title and meta description for my site’s homepage and registered it in RankMath, but in RankMath’s site analyzer and other analyzers, my site’s homepage loads without a title and meta description.
I wanted to know how to fix this so that it works. I have used many hosts and now I want to use your free plan and if it is good and I am satisfied, I will buy your paid plan.
My main problem right now is that the title and meta description of the homepage are not loading anywhere, but the title and meta description are present in the site code.

[Frank419]

Just ditch that so called WP Crontrol plugin and trigger the cron by yourself by simply visiting your site.

[Admin]

Free hosting doesn’t support system cron jobs, and automated access to any web URLs is blocked too, so you can’t call the cron that way either. That includes both external web cron tools and any request from your website to it’s own wp-cron.php endpoint.

None of that should impact regular WP-Cron functionality though. That should just run as usual in the background.

I cannot say for certain, but in my experience, background tasks piling up are usually the result of some plugin adding either too many, too big, or just broken tasks to the task queue (or maybe even a combination of the above). This just results in so many tasks having to be done that there is just no way to keep up.

You can trigger the cron yourself by manually going to http://samafzali.wuaze.com/wp-cron.php. Refreshing that page should cause more tasks to be executed.