Comments on: Hosting hiccups … http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/01/hosting-hiccups/?source=rss A bit of my personal life, mainly focused on my kids. A bit of code, mainly focused on Wordpress and PHP. Overall, bits of nothing in particular. Wed, 08 Feb 2012 20:57:05 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Lorelle http://planetozh.com/blog/2007/01/hosting-hiccups/comment-page-1/#comment-36141 Lorelle Thu, 31 May 2007 17:00:52 +0000 http://frenchfragfactory.net/ozh/archives/2007/01/12/hosting-hiccups/#comment-36141 You are not alone in this issue. The same thing is happening to me and I'm going to be moving hosts. The reasons are multi-fold. First, the Ultimate Tag Warrior and a few other Plugins, especially older versions of translation Plugins and others, lost their "off switch", so to speak, when WordPress developers changed some underlying code that turned off database access for WordPress Plugins which didn't know how to place nice. They need to learn to play nicely with your WordPress blog and database. This opened but did not close a lot of the database connections which brought down many shared host databases by going over their limit for access per hour. An hour later, it would be up and working again, until the max was hit, and then down for an hour for the database count to reset. PAIN. So make sure that you did more than just move but upgraded everything and consider shutting down UTW and some of the other Plugins which have not been updated accordingly. And watch your database count to see if that might be still causing problems. You are not alone in this issue. The same thing is happening to me and I’m going to be moving hosts. The reasons are multi-fold. First, the Ultimate Tag Warrior and a few other Plugins, especially older versions of translation Plugins and others, lost their “off switch”, so to speak, when WordPress developers changed some underlying code that turned off database access for WordPress Plugins which didn’t know how to place nice. They need to learn to play nicely with your WordPress blog and database.

This opened but did not close a lot of the database connections which brought down many shared host databases by going over their limit for access per hour. An hour later, it would be up and working again, until the max was hit, and then down for an hour for the database count to reset. PAIN.

So make sure that you did more than just move but upgraded everything and consider shutting down UTW and some of the other Plugins which have not been updated accordingly. And watch your database count to see if that might be still causing problems.

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