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2026-04-11 05:13
Cron Job Not Running? A Practical Debug Guide for Production
If you are dealing with a cron job that should have run by now but did not, you need a real cron job not running debug process, not guesswork.
This is one of the most frustrating production problems because nothing looks obviously broken. Your app is up. The server responds. Dashboards are green. But some scheduled task, backup, sync, invoice generation, cleanup, email digest, simply did not happ...
