Intermittent site crashes–unending loop created?

  • Resolved paulaeisenberg

    (@paulaeisenberg)


    15 years, 1 month ago

    Ever since upgrading from 2.7.1 to 2.8.4, our site has experienced repeated crashes. Sometimes nothing at all shows up, sometimes Internal Server Error, sometimes Cannot make database connection messages appear. The outages last from a day to a few minutes.

    The hosting company (Prohosting.com) says it must be a plugin, that some kind of endless loop is being created, which finally crashes the site. I’ve asked them to tell me how they fix it when this happens, thinking that the solution might point toward the cause.

    It’s very hard for us to trouble-shoot by disabling plugins one by one, since the crash might not happen for days or even weeks. We are running 33 plugins, Atahualpa 3.4.3 theme, WP 2.8.4. https://www.larchmontgazette.com We have a lot of widgets to show a lot of content in the sidebars. Some of the plugins we need now won’t be necessary once WP 2.9 is ready, we hope.

    Any ideas on what could be causing this problem?

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  • 33 plugins. Wow. I guess be sure all your plugins are updated.

    Don’t know if it will help with a endless loop (if the hosting company really determined that) but try increasing the memory for PHP and WordPress by putting this line in your wp-config.php file:

    define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '64M');

    Thread Starter paulaeisenberg

    (@paulaeisenberg)

    I’ll try that, thanks.
    Yes, probably too many plugins, but the site really needs a CMS, and the plugins bring WordPress to that level. Sorta-kinda.

    Thread Starter paulaeisenberg

    (@paulaeisenberg)

    I had to hire somebody to help, but we think we’ve discovered the problems causing this.

    For one thing, the My Category Order plugin, while it was still working to order categories, was also throwing off an error every time a page was loaded.

    Also, a CRON job was running once an hour. It was coming from an old plugin, Ad Rotator, that I had tested eons ago, deactivated and deleted!

    There were a bunch of empty rows in the database tables.

    The site is running faster now, and so far, we haven’t had a crash as before. We’ll see how it goes over the next weeks.

    Mark Ratledge

    (@songdogtech)

    Clean Options ? WordPress Plugins will bring your DB size down and clean out old options from plugins not longer being used.

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