44.231.187.146 POST /wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron

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I'm restricting a new lightsail instance so that it only responds to my home IP address (for various testing).  
Now, I notice that all my instances have frequent hits like this:  
  
44.231.187.146 - - \[12/Dec/2020:23:47:46 +0000] "POST /wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron=1607816866.2369520664215087890625 HTTP/1.1" 200 -  
  
What are these? Are they required somehow for the instance to operate properly?

Mike Witt · Answer

OK, thanks.

Mike Witt · Answer

Do you have any idea what "etc" consists of? I'm not worried about update checks, but the question is are there some addresses that I need to let in so that the site will otherwise function normally. I didn't realize that there were functions that needed "prompting" from the outside. (Not an expert on this by any means!)

David G · Answer

Anything that has to happen on a schedule. Scheduled posts, purging spam posts, things like that.   
  
https://developer.wordpress.org/plugins/cron/  
  
My advice, don’t worry about it. It’s needed and supposed to do that.

David G · Answer

That’s Wordpress invoking a web service to start scheduled operations (update checks, etc).   
  
Perfectly normal.

44.231.187.146 POST /wp-cron.php?doing_wp_cron

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