Crashed website

  • Installed this plugin and it caused my website and my whole hosting account to crash.

    Don’t know what it was trying to do but it caused a major PHP error and overlaoded the CPU resources.

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    Could you please consider raising a support topic for this plugin instead?

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle#postform

    You really don’t know what the situation was that caused that CPU spike and I am sure the author would like to help. The best place for that is a support topic.

    Plugin Author Braam Genis

    (@braam-genis)

    Hi lesbell

    Very sorry to hear about the trouble you’ve had.

    We haven’t had any reports of anything like this happening before. We’re quite proud of this plugin and would love to do whatever we can to make it work for you. I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me in trying to resolve this issue.

    If you open a support topic, would you please tell us which theme you were using and which plugins you had installed at the time the issue occurred. And it would also be very helpful if you could include error logs at around the time the issue occurred.

    Thanks very much.

    Thread Starter lesbell

    (@lesbell)

    Jan Dembowski

    “You really don’t know what the situation was that caused that CPU spike”

    ???!!!!!

    I really do know that the plugin caused the spike and have a report from our webhost server logs.

    Les Bell

    Thread Starter lesbell

    (@lesbell)

    Braam Genis

    I’ll raise a ticket and supply you with the info you asked for.

    Les Bell

    Plugin Author Greg Priday

    (@gpriday)

    To summarise those interested. Braam (our lead developer on the Widget Bundle project) and I investigated the possible cause of this issue. Here is the support thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/siteorigin-widgets-bundle-website-crash

    It seems like a possible cause was a Wordfence scan. Other users have reported high CPU usage during scans.

    https://www.ads-software.com/search/wordfence+cpu+usage?forums=1

    I’m sure the Wordfence developers have resolved all these issues. It’s possible that some part of the Widget Bundle is causing the scan to go awry. Braam and I haven’t been able to recreate this issue in our testing environments, but we’ll continue to investigate and reach out to the Wordfence developers if we need to.

    We’re very proud of Widget Bundle, so it does hurt to receive a 1-star review, but I’m sure that doesn’t compare to the frustration of having a server crash. We’ll do all we can to ensure this doesn’t happen to our users in the future.

    All the best for the future of your project Les.

    Good plugin not so good reviewer novice

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