How to find a script which crash the website

  • Resolved nanacyrah

    (@nanacyrah)


    8 years, 2 months ago

    Hi, my website is pmvision . every few hours an issue happens, the site redirect to install page install.php . After some research i found that the cause of the problem is that the database receives a lot of hits/ queries , more than 75000/h which is allowed by the host. so the site start working again after less than hour. I tried to disable all plugins but as there is no specific time for the problem, so it is hard to find the cost. I was told that there is a script which cause the problem by sending a lot of request to the database.

    How could i find which script is doing this? or how to solve the problem.? is there is a hosting company that has no limit for database hits?

    Thanks

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  • This sounds more like a brute force attempt to your wordpress site. Probabbly your xmlrpc.php or wp-login.php file.

    You can try to install a security plugin like Better WP Security to disable the XMLRPC functionality and hide your backend. Maybe that is enough and helps.

    If not you could try out a service like sucuri.net, that is esentially a firewall that sits between your visitors and your webserver. It doesn’t let through malicious attemps and maybe solves the problem. (They have a 14 day trial you could use to see if it solves the problem).

    Thread Starter nanacyrah

    (@nanacyrah)

    Thanks Growtheme for the answer. I really appreciate it

    I will try Better WP security even if there is a risk using it in existing site ” according to plugin developers” . I am using Wordfence as security plugin, i will also replace it with sucuri. I noticed that wordfence tables in the database grow very fast ” for example wp-wfwoovers table has 20000 with more than 1 mega size” , so i will deactivate the plugin.

    Thanks again
    Best Regards

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