Hosting & cron job question

scalar

addactive wrote that not using cron jobs to send email causes their basic hosting to run out of resources pretty quickly when not mailing using cron.
http://forum.sendy.co/discussion/519/what-hosting-server-do-you-use-with-sendy/p1

Is indeed sending only via cron jobs requires less server resources (beside other advantages)?

Ben

Hi @scalar,

Basically the resources used will be the same on your server, whether the sending script is executed from your browser or from the server using a cron job.

When you use a cron job to execute the sending script, everything happens on your server. The sending script is executed directly by php on your server. It does not have to receive data from your web browser, then process the data and transfer them to Amazon SES. Besides, the cron job executes the sending script periodically to check if sending timed out and resume sending if so. This is 100% more reliable than manually clicking on the resume button when sending without cron which is prone to human error.

Ben