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		bongobingo1 on June 30, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Upptime/upptime: Uptime monitor and status page po... AFAIK "5 minute crons" on GHA are "best effort" and may run anywhere between 5 and 20 minutes, and are also subject to some kind of "couldn't find a worker in time" skip/cancellation rules.

anandchowdhary on June 30, 2022 [–]

Maker here. Yes, this became a common-enough problem for me to write a small post: https://upptime.js.org/blog/2021/01/22/github-actions-schedu.... Some people tried with self-hosted runners on Actions [1], but that turned out not to be much better.

[1] https://github.com/upptime/upptime/issues/42

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