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Thanks JenR — I’ll check it out!

I’m considering moving to WPEngine — and it’s going to be $600 a month.

I wanted the $250 a month Virtual Dedicated Server option (which tops out at 400K views a month), but they’re (of course) recommending the $600 dedicated option.

Is this Cadillac-ing?

I just want my site to be steady and secure and never ever crash like this again. It’s only limping along right now because I took Vault Press and Sucuri off. Scary!

Absolutely. Will do!

I did not realize that this was a problem that could happen. So, I’ll definitely let you know how the transition goes and if things improve.

ETA, I have NOT tried a designated server, but I will now!

Thanks for the feedback. Bluehost told me this nonsense that I was too large for WP.

And also that a dedicated server wouldn’t solve my problem. I’m not an IT geek, but even I see how nuts that is!

Fact is, I’ve outgrown even the most amped up shared hosting they have on offer, and I’m looking at moving to VDS, virtual dedicated server? with WPEngine.

Jack, I don’t know what a content delivery network is, but I will totally look into it.

Catacaustic — I have tried designated service, but that’s what I’m moving toward now (with all that expense too!) I think it has to be better than what I’ve got going now.

Thanks!

Should edit that to a designated server would NOT solve my problem!

Has this happened to anyone else?

Thanks so much. ??

Thanks Otto.

The developer wrote back, gave me the login, so I can read about the solution, but she can’t fix it for me. Is there anywhere I can hire a person to fix this?

I’m afraid to tinker under the hood and eff up my site further. I’m a writer, not a coder. My geek powers have limits.

Thanks for all your help, Otto. I truly appreciate it.

Thanks Otto. Don’t mean to be ungrateful. It’s very helpful to locate the problem with Thesis.

I live outside of Austin and the person who built my site used Thesis and has the license (or some software developers license… knows the developer or something).

All to say, I didn’t realize it’s a paid subscription and I can’t access troubleshooting. Guess I’ve had a bootlegged theme… who knew?… now I know.

Ugh. Guess I’ll pay the $87 to fix my problem and subscribe to Thesis.

Thanks Otto. I’m not a developer and I confess none of this is making sense to me. What exactly can I DO. How do I fix this, and is there even a fix?

Thesis and 4.0 don’t play nicely together and make your plug-ins disappear. And… what next?

Thanks…

Also adding — for some folks, the column comes up fine, but when they click to comment, they get an error message as well.

I just checked it and under default all of these are checked

Attempt to notify any blogs linked to from the article
Allow link notifications from other blogs (pingbacks and trackbacks)
Allow people to post comments on new articles
(These settings may be overridden for individual articles.)

Somehow maybe the settings got overridden for that post?

I don’t know. I’m the only admin and suddenly the comments didn’t appear. Everything else under Settings/Discussion looks normal.

But now I know how to fix if it happens again. Thank you!

Thanks Theme Diva!

Any idea why my comments would suddenly shut off? Or is WP peculiar that way?

Thanks Otto. Hey, dumb question, but is there any harm in turning off user registration? People can still make comments and such?

Forgot to add, I actually got two of these messages, same email user. The other username is admin26.