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@cannobbio – that’s a thought I had because I have a reseller account through HostGator as well as a Plesk account where updates are manual. Now that you mention it, I am only experiencing the hangs on sites that have been updated recently.

I don’t have the All in One SEO plugin installed at subdomain.harmonieponder.com and I even have it white listed mod_security #1234234 and it still hangs.

I am in Michigan.

I had HostGator white list mod_security #1234234 and I am still experiencing hanging but it’s not to the degree I was before. I will try pruning my plugins next and report back.

Good post @tomdkat.

Thank you @joanw.

Thanks @joanw, that’s great news! Now I’m not sure if they fixed their servers but I know a year ago when all the WordPress iframe injections were going around the xmlrpc.php was a culprit and my host at the time (not HostGator) advised me to remove all publishing rights to the file. Well, I’ve gotten lazy but I just implemented it on my sites (chmod 0000) and they seem much faster. It could be a coincidence, it could be Host Gator fixed mod_security or it could be a solution…

@esmi – did you read the thread? there are 6 different hosts in all different environments with the same problems and we’ve talked to our hosts.

They don’t say so on their minimum requirements page www.ads-software.com/about/requirements/. They even acknowledge there are newer versions. How do we get someone at a higher level to look at this thread? Looking…

Here is my server info on HostGator:

Apache version 2.2.19
PHP version 5.2.17
MySQL version 5.1.52

@tomdkat – Thanks!

I’ve experienced this same issue on a BlueHost account I was working on today so that’s 4 different servers from 4 different companies (and we’re not talking about GoDaddy or Network Solutions who are inherently always slow with WordPress). I don’t think we can pin it to HostGator.

For now, I just wait for WordPress core updates and pray that it gets resolved.

I do have another suspicion…the xmlrpc.php file found in the root of a WordPress install has been the target of exploits in the past – perhaps this is causing it…

I don’t think we should give up troubleshooting ??

They told a client of mine the same thing to disable the “All-in-One” SEO plugin and that I install the “W3 Total Cache” plugin to enable caching. They are under a separate hosting than me but both through HostGator.

I was going to suggest we compare plugins, thank you for listing yours and I see we don’t have too many in common.

My list of activated plugins:
All in One SEO Pack
Contact Form 7
Exclude Pages from Navigation
Google XML Sitemaps
NextGEN Gallery
Really Simple CAPTCHA
Shadowbox JS
WordPress Importer
WordPress Related Posts
WP-Cycle
WP-reCAPTCHA

Only Contact Form 7 and NextGen are the same and I highly doubt they are the cause although I have had a problem with both over the last couple months. Those visible problems seem to be resolved.

The same thing happens to me in Firefox.

Yes @tomdkat – I am experiencing the stalls not locally as in my computer but through a local internet provider who also offers hosting services. I just put this together earlier today. Good to hear I’m not alone but perhaps we can make a difference by putting this out there and providing as much knowledge as we can about this problem.

While I was researching this further, I found this post from over a year ago:

https://www.seosteve.com/wordpress-stalls-and-will-not-publish

It all of a sudden occurred to me that this does happen more often when I’m logged in to the dashboard (I think) – what about you? Do you agree?

Harmonie

I am experiencing this problem too but I am also developing on another server (at a local host) and I experience the same problems. Having said that, I have 2 possibly scenarios for the problem:

1.) The WordPress core is the problem.

2.) A plugin is the problem.

I sure hope it’s solved soon…

I run over 250 WordPress websites and this just started in the last 6 weeks or so…

How did you figure it out? I am having the same issue.

JHouse – Your theme there looks really similar to the themes released by StudioPress. Anyone else agree?

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