Title: admin-ajax.php overloading my server
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# admin-ajax.php overloading my server

 *  [selemba](https://wordpress.org/support/users/selemba/)
 * (@selemba)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-overloading-my-server/)
 * hi,
    file wp-admin/admin-ajax.php is overloading my server. my hosting provider
   written me that: The web server had to serve these requests. Since these files
   are huge, each request was consuming a lot of outgoing bandwidth which means 
   the server was overloaded and it could not serve other web page requests. Hence,
   we have suspended the website functionality of your account.
 * Can you help me with solving my problem?

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 *  [suraj-consulting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/suraj-consulting/)
 * (@suraj-consulting)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-overloading-my-server/#post-2336662)
 * I am also facing off similar type of problem, It is consuming lost of bandwidth
   when I edit any post, categrory, delete or modifies any comment. It is almost
   consuming 100 KB each action. Any solution to this problem?
 *  [GATEKeeper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gatekeeper/)
 * (@gatekeeper)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-overloading-my-server/#post-2336681)
 * Something is definitely wrong. I’ve seen forum responses that the activity is
   caused within the server by users, but I’ve seen activity to the file when I’m
   not connected (and I’m the only user), and I have the IPs from where they’re 
   connecting from, which definitely aren’t local.
 * Someone out there is trying to exploit something.
 *  [GATEKeeper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gatekeeper/)
 * (@gatekeeper)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-overloading-my-server/#post-2336682)
 * Sorry, I may have spoken too soon. My resources on the server are getting chewed
   up by the admin-ajax.php file, but it looks like it’s happening because a lot
   of users are triggering the file from pages of the site.
 * What would cause that to happen? Why would a normal visitor trigger and admin
   file?
 *  [mommygeekology](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mommygeekology/)
 * (@mommygeekology)
 * [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-overloading-my-server/#post-2336683)
 * Could be that a plugin is using the built-in WordPress AJAX for something on 
   the front end of your site?

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 * [admin-ajax.php](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin-ajax-php/)
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 * [overload](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/overload/)

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 * Last reply from: [mommygeekology](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mommygeekology/)
 * Last activity: [14 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/admin-ajaxphp-overloading-my-server/#post-2336683)
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