General question about cron worker limit in place
Hi, I am working on some self project poc and come up with the obstacle on the limit of 5 cron triggers in free tier.
Currently I separate my functions into 1A,1B,1C,1D, 2, 3. Function 1 runs in every 5 minutes, function 2 runs every day, and function 3 runs every minute.
Ofc I can pay-2-solve the problem or just combining workers with similar purpose to one single worker which runs different part of the code in different intervals. But that defies the orginal purpose of separating the codes for better readability and easier maintainance.
But I just wonder why there is the limit of cron workers there in first place? If it is there for testing shouldnt the other limit (requests, Storage R/W) is enough to prevent abuse? Maybe someone from cloudflare can answer this?
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and anyone know or have experience on how long I should expect for the reply for the Limit Increase Request Form?
They usually just don't reply if they're not going to increase it from what I've seen (which is.. not the best way of communicating that). If this is about raising a limit on free that doesn't exist on paid, the answer is just to upgrade
don't think there's any cf employees that work on the cron stuff in disc, I imagine the limit is just basic anti-abuse stuff on free tier, unlike normal workers they have to be scheduled and moved around, and happen regardless of outside requests
ah I see thanks for the advice!