InclusiveHost-John

How did you set them up as 10.0.0.5 in the first place? Through linking in the individual posts? You may have to go back and edit these.

>> These are my pingdom results. Someone on stacks-overflow recommended i change the call from 10.0.0.5 to the actual public domain.

Correct, this is contributing to the problem as 10.0.0.5 isn’t a valid public IP, it’s only for private networking. So no one will be able to load any of that content, but it will attempt it and slow down the process (cost me 9 seconds)

I would first fix this issue as no one would be able to see this content with the IP being set at 10.0.0.5.

open_basedir is a restriction in PHP that prevents users opening other hosting clients files from within PHP. Basically, it’s a security measure to help prevent unauthorized access.

Are you file references correct above? The /home2/clinlega/ versus /home/clinlega that you have referenced.

Is your dev in /home2/ but your live in /home/?

It sounds like you have some incorrect data in your .htaccess file. Please check this and let us know what the contents are.

How much of your traffic was from search engines? It’s possible they updated the algorithm and ranking of your website. If it was all or a majority from social media, then I’m not sure either.

Do you see any error log in your WordPress directory that may point to a memory issue loading this? It could be named something like error_log.

Is there anything in the php error log that would be of use? Is your default php memory_limit too low?

Is there anything in the php error log to show why it may be a white page, such as running out of memory, etc?

What does your host have to say about the issue?

Have you timed this pause when it’s loading? It sounds like either your host is overloaded, or that it’s reaching the php timeout variable. What does your host have to say about the error?

Did your host make any system level changes due to WordPress attacks, such as limiting access to these pages?

Are you sure you don’t have any security related plugins active?

Can you visit your login through a proxy like https://anonymouse.org/ ?

The last item that typically causes this is password protection setup on the wp-admin folder without specifying “ErrorDocument 401 default” in there.

That’s surprising. No warning or notification to you beforehand? What if you are running E-commerce plugins to sell products and customers couldn’t purchase items?

Did they even suggest the following for resolution?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Brute_Force_Attacks

Sounds like an issue with your PHP 5.4.x configuration and error_reporting. Did you change hosts etc?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17234259/strict-standards-declaration-of-should-be-compatible-with

“Also, if you want to disable STRICT errors, add ^ E_STRICT to your error reporting configuration, for example:

error_reporting(E_ALL ^ E_STRICT);”

Have you attempted to increase the memory in PHP to fix this issue?

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP

I would check with your hosting provider to see if there are any error messages generated, most likely with running out of memory. Please reference the following

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Editing_wp-config.php#Increasing_memory_allocated_to_PHP