Running Cron every 2 hours [duplicate]

An asterisk in the minute (first) field tells it to run every minute, regardless of the other fields.

You need to specify an exact minute to run within the hour. Be that on the hour (0), half past (30), etc..

0 */2 * * * /path-to-script

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