LATEST VERSION – every single page hit to request the sitemap, overloading PHP

  • I’m currently with BigScoots and today I noticed extremely erratic performance from my server. When I reached out to them, they said there’s a known issue with Yoast’s latest version of the SEO plugin which I have installed (14.0.4).

    RESULT:
    Causing every single page hit to request the sitemap which is over loading PHP. Server is overloaded.

    EXAMPLES (provided by host):
    107.77.206.130 – – [05/May/2020:12:23:06 -0500] “GET /author-sitemap.xml HTTP/1.1” 499 0 “https://goingawesomeplaces.com/how-canadas-gambling-scene-is-rivalling-las-vegas-casinos/” “Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; Android 9; Nokia 3.1 A) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.87 Mobile Safari/537.36”
    24.30.77.165 – – [05/May/2020:12:23:10 -0500] “GET /sitemap.xml HTTP/1.1” 301 5 “https://goingawesomeplaces.com/best-car-rental-coupon-codes-save-insane-amount-money/” “Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/80.0.3987.163 Safari/537.36”
    2604:2000:dd04:8600:c105:5b97:5300:2d27 – – [05/May/2020:12:23:10 -0500] “GET /sitemap.xml HTTP/1.1” 502 552 “https://goingawesomeplaces.com/10-day-egypt-itinerary/” “Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_4) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/81.0.4044.129 Safari/537.36”

    TEMPORARY SOLUTION:
    In the in-term they’ve deactivated Yoast and disabled access to my sitemap as its completely over loading the server.

    I think there are already hands raised on this forum with this issue. Hopefully we can collectively get Yoast’s attention and that they’re working on a resolution.

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