Cant access site after server migration

  • Resolved turtlechief

    (@turtlechief)


    12 years ago

    After a recent server migration all of my WP sites (and only WP sites) are no longer accessible (tested Firefox and Chrome on 2 diff. networks). DB Connection appears to be fine, but the site won’t come up and I cannot log in.

    Details:

    Hosting: GoDaddy Linux Shared Hosting (I know, I know… I’ll get around to finding a better provider, I promise.)

    • My WP sites are a subdomain of my root domain.
    • My non-WP subdomain websites are all accessible.
    • DNS lookup and Trace Route aren’t showing any problems that I can see.
    • I can reach the files/folders via ftp and/or ssh (although my ssh abilities are limited since its shared hosting).

    What I’ve tried:

    • opened config file to check db connections (does not appear to be problem there.)
    • tried renaming plugins folder to plugins.hold
    • tried renaming .htaccess to .htaccezz everywhere I could find it.
    • I already checked The Google without any luck.

    I’m stuck… Any help would be greatly appreciated.

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  • Thread Starter turtlechief

    (@turtlechief)

    I enabled debugging, and it looks like a lot of SQL queries are causing

    WordPress database error MySQL server has gone away

    .

    I’m going to check my DB, maybe the tables are not indexed after migration???

    Thread Starter turtlechief

    (@turtlechief)

    the tables are there, they are indexed….

    Thread Starter turtlechief

    (@turtlechief)

    Well, the issue appears to be slowly resolving itself….

    both my WP sites are now coming up (but are ridiculously slow…)

    very strange indeed.

    Thread Starter turtlechief

    (@turtlechief)

    I’m beginning to think its GoDaddy… I did a reverse lookup on the server and there are 4,269 domains in addition to mine. I’m no server admin, but that seems like a lot to me.

    Thread Starter turtlechief

    (@turtlechief)

    Just so no one else wastes there time on the same problem. It was the hosting provider. Their SSH enabled server was too crowded. I moved my site to Hostgator and the site suddenly works like a charm. A reverse ip lookup on my new provider showed 146 sites as opposed to over 4000 for GoDaddy.

    (I know this is a WP forum, but the same lesson goes double for Magento users /developers, make sure your host is set up to handle the resource intensive applications that you use for your websites.)

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