/module/cronjobs/callback And Prestashop ?

[don@ptg]

I noticed our site was responding slower this morning and I noticed an unusually high number of visitors. The culprit at the time seemed to be 91.240.109.1. A google search of that address seems to suggest its something to do with Prestashop software. https://github.com/PrestaShop/cronjobs/issues/7 has people complaining about it and prestashop too. We had no cronjobs and the module talked about in the linked thread was installed but not enabled. It looks like someone during this time was trying to hit /module/cronjobs/callback resulting in a 404, close to 5000 times. We uninstalled the cronjob module just  for safety as this entire experience seems very suspect.

 

My question is was this experience truly related to prestashop in some way as the link thread seems to suggest, or was it something else?

Edited February 16, 2016 by don@ptg (see edit history)

[shacker]

well, can be a bot.

if you dont use, just remove

[El Patron]

cron should be used from server unless your hosting does not  support cron.

 

cron run in apache for exmaple has a lower priority than a real time transaction, running a job via cron in a cms, apache runs like a real time transaction.

 

as shaker suggest, delete it and use hosting cron