Using Updraftplus has crashed my website

Hi,

It sounds like you’re hosted on an extremely overloaded server, for which adding one more thing (like a backup task, that wants to read/compress/write a copy of the whole site), is tipping it over the edge into unresponsiveness. I see that the site is up again now – did it just come back by itself, or was something else needed?

David

Thanks for the reply. The site started sporadically coming up and functioning for a minute or two. I went in and disabled the plugin in one of the windows of time where the site was up and it started functioning normally. I don’t have anything running on the server that I know of other than a basic website. I guess it’s on GoDaddy’s end. Does this plugin normally function well with their hosting? I didn’t see anyone else with similar problems before starting this thread.
Thanks,
Andy

Hi Andy,

GoDaddy are generally fine (and, with 400,000 installs of UD, there’s a huge number of people using it) – but we do from time to time see evidence of extremely overloaded servers which GD don’t seem to be very pro-active in doing much about. (At least, when I’ve seen people on very overloaded servers, it’s not been unusual for them to come back a few weeks later still in that situation).

Best wishes,
David