Some sites are not automatically syncing

Before I open a ticket, I figured I could ask the community, and yes I did do a search before posting. More than half of my child sites are not syncing automatically but some are. All sites are in Docker containers but uses the same settings and configurations. Some sites are hosted on different servers and they also sync properly. Each container has a cron that executes wp cron event run --due-now so I know cron is working just fine when tested with a scheduled test post.

How would you diagnose this?


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MultiSite Disabled                 =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
WordPress Memory Limit             >=64M                                                  40M                                          Warning     
WordPress Version                  >=6.2                                                  6.4.3                                        Pass        

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PCRE Backtracking Limit            >=10000                                                1000000                                      Pass        
PHP Allow URL fopen                N/A                                                    YES                                                      
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PHP Post Max Size                  >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
PHP Safe Mode Disabled             =true                                                  true                                         Pass        
PHP Upload Max Filesize            >=2M                                                   128M                                         Pass        
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### Server Configuration           Detected Value                                      ###

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Architecture                       64		 bit                                               
Gateway Interface                  CGI/1.1                                                
HTTPS                              ON                                                     
Memory Usage                       15.51 MB                                               
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Server self connect                Not expected HTTP response body:                       
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MainWP legacy backups enabled      No                                                     
Maximum number of pages to return                                                         
Maximum number of posts to return                                                         
Maximum simultaneous install and update requests3                                                      
Maximum simultaneous requests      4                                                      
Maximum simultaneous requests per ip1                                                      
Maximum simultaneous sync requests 8                                                      
Minimum delay between requests     200                                                    
Minimum delay between requests to the same ip1000                                                   
Number of connected sites          14                                                     
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Primary Backup System              WPvivid Backup for MainWP                              
REST API enabled                   No                                                     
Site health monitoring enabled     No                                                     
Theme advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    
Use WP Cron                        Yes                                                    
WP Core advanced automatic updates enabledYes                                                    

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WPvivid Plugins Pro                2.2.23                                                 Active                                       


@cim Within your System Report I see:

Use WP Cron Yes

WP Cron has the caveat that you need to visit the site once in a while for it to pop-off and run the cron jobs.

If you want to make sure that WP Cron jobs are regularly triggered on your MainWP Dashboard, you could use an Uptime Checking service, like Uptime Robot , and add your Dashboard site as a monitor.

The Uptime Robot will ping your dashboard site regularly and make sure that all scheduled events are occurring.

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Each site’s WP container has logrotate installed and configured properly to execute wp cron event run --due-now so cron is working properly with define( 'DISABLE_WP_CRON', true );.

As you can see from the screenshot with the cron jobs, the required cron jobs were executed recently. I’m just wondering if someone had a similar case to mine.

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@cim Thank you for the clarification - please don’t hesitate to open an official ticket if no-one with the same setup chimes in.

I am gonna try the individual PHP file cron option stated here. How often is this page updated?

@cim Our Knowledgebase is updated frequently.

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