Website Keeps Becoming Inaccesible

  • I’ve had a website that continues to go down a few times a week. Hosting said all is fine and I’ve never had any of my other sites do this. What can be done to fix this? Here’s what they have said:

    “I investigated the issue further and from what I can see the CPU of the server is getting overloaded due to a large amount of MySQL queries being stuck in the queue: The table wp_websitedatabase_posts was locked and every visit on your website was spawning a new request to that table which was unable to complete due to the table lock. Therefore the website became absolutely inaccessible. “

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  • wp_websitedatabase_posts is not a part of WordPress core. I take it this comes from some sort of “related posts” plugin? These kinds of plugins can really bog down a server.

    If this is the case, you can deactivate the plugin to see if your performance improves.

    Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    You could try to disable/ enable plugins. This will give you an indication.

    Thread Starter designer13421321

    (@nistuj817)

    I don’t have any post-related plugins on the site. Are you guys familiar with any specific or other types of plugins which may cause this to happen?

    The usual advice is to disable all plugins, see if it resolves the problem. If so, re-activate one plugin at a time. When the problem resurfaces, you will have ID’ed the culprit.

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