Server Reset While Page is Loading

@reedbird8, you really need to start your own thread, since your issue is not exactly the same as the original poster here (would require you to have EXACTLY the same config, etc).

One of the reasons I chose WordPress for my endeavor is its ability to handle data in a fast and efficient way. A CMS. One can’t call it a program per se – We aren’t running the WordPress “program”. We’re querying the database and having the theme show the results to your browser with css. If you think in pages, this only fits that model at the screen end, where the viewer interacts with it. To us it’s a page. The beauty of the system is that it that you don’t have to load pages and the overall data transferred is less. We just query the server. In the case of the theme I use all it has to do is fill in the blanks from one or two queries homerun straight to the tables. Select, verify, bang!

Once your theme’s loaded, all it has to do is load data. Theme switching has to load a different set of data. I haven’t tried a wide variety of themes, just test stuff and those used to help solve the reset issue. With this it’s possible some of the problems you had are related to how different the themes are and of course are you running any custom code? My using variations of the same is not the same as total theme switching and I chose that model to have continuity throughout the site – Part of what WordPress does natively but stretching it.

Hand in hand, Dreamweaver and WordPress in tandem rule.

It might not hurt to try the phpease theme if you have some additional scripts running in php in order to test. There is also a plug in, execphp. Deactivate all other plug-ins and widgets. If your theme runs, build everything back up piece by piece until it crashes. This will help ferret out the culprit.

Have you tried different themes on the new site? Do they work? Where-when is your reset happening? Mine was not at the page level but in the WordPress editor. Loading the page list was molasses slow over 3000 pages, then trying to open edit a page resulted in the reset.
Your 900 page reset says something has the slows unless you get actual error messages. In developing scripts errors will generate messages, some on screen. If you’re developing using themes and plug-ins only, these have to be examined on a per unit basis. There are usually several of any plug-in or widget found so there are some choices.

Java? – – I’m not your guy.

@jess – bbhank actually mentioned he had been using GoDaddy when he was having the problem and has since switched. No, my issue is not identical, but bbhank is the only one I’ve found having a very similar problem. He was using the same host, and there is clearly no trouble with WP or my theme, just as in his situation. I really don’t think there is anything the WP crew can do to help; its a server issue, which is why I haven’t started a new topic for support. I figured bbhank and me sharing our experiences in one thread for people to read would be more useful.

bbhank – my reset happens in the editor, just like yours. Loading anything in admin is relatively slow, but the reset happens when I press “Update” or “Publish”. I’ve tried other themes, the only one that creates the problem is the new one I am trying to use (and adding my own css for a site update in a month or so). However, this theme causes no problems on a localhost or for any of the other 900 people who are trying to use it. I had even stripped down to a fresh install on a fresh subdomain, but still had the same issues. I’m really considering attempting a different host to see what happens.

The WordPress person who was key in my particular solution – see above – is Esmi – Thank you, Esmi.

Our problems are quite similar in that they are load based. To understand that loading takes careful study of log files if one is to customize WordPress in that way. Again, I minimized that possibility by using multiple themes based on one base. I never mentioned that I’m new to WordPress but not to technology, been in that since before desktop computers, so I’m used to the world of command lines and log files. No programmer though, again, that’s why I chose WordPress. If your background, or chosen method doesn’t involve the debugging side of WordPress, I really suggest staying within WP’s boundaries. Theme switching is in a gray area. It’s been a fight here also.

To move toward a solution to your particular issue reedbird8, I suggest a systematic approach. There are two ways to do that: Start fresh and add every module you have one, by one, piece by piece, until you get a crash – Gotta have your logs here. The other is the reverse of this – starting with what you have running without making it crash, and de-install everything until it works, then rebuild from there. I don’t know what your particular installation is, but if I were assigned to a field tech job to diagnose your issue, that’s the method I’d use, without knowing any particulars. That’s the tech world I’m from. I’d also look at the overall strategy and look at alternative ways to get the same look and feel you get from theme switching. Load analysis is a must when you have a ton of pages. The available, lo cost services offer what the average customer uses most. We’re way outside of that. I didn’t want my site to be pounding the server so hard that timeouts would be generate by either load or network traffic. I’m working out and extension to a present script – php – right now instead of creating a new and separate one. Both methods “work” but one uses a separate set of queries. I use the one that is both faster and gets the job done.

Hope that’s of some help.

“Small Change (Got Rained on with His Own .38)”–Tom Waits

Thank you, Everybody.

Yup!.. though the issue is strange and harder believe the issue lies with servers like godaddy where timeout is limitted to less than that of the time database takes up to give the data.

Changing the hosting for this reason is pretty costly one and the original hosting provider might not payback to you.

The ultimate solution is to reduce the waitage on database

1. Reduce no.of.posts – Well i am not saying to remove any posts from your blog, actually wordpress changes all the revisions in db and when you were writing a large article you’ll end up with atleast 20 auto saved revisions. so in reedbird8’s case the 9000 records wouldn’t hurt the db much but 9000×20=180000 would do that. The plugin named Better Delete Revision will clear out and reduces the no.of.revisions to be same as actual no.of.posts. Personally on my website codeworth i use it and it cleared off 98 revisions till now in 45 posts.

2. Reduce No.of.Hits to DB – Sadly wordpress keeps requesting db each time when an user wanted to visit the page so if you got 100 regular visitors then the no.of.db requests is no.of.posts x no.of.visitors which is pretty high when no.of.posts and no.of.visitors were hiked.The plugins like WP Total Cache , WP Super Cache will addup server caching so that relative db hits is reduced.
Alternatively U can use php inclusion and move the post contents to standard php files so that the the content is popped from web server rather than the DB server. Ex : plain php is included into wordpress post

Hope these little tweaks would help to get the issue’s impact minimized.

Lastly even i use godaddy hosting service and fed up with their limitations (while they keep saying they were best ?? ) and started to look for alternative as my subscription is bought for 3 years.

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