Title: Crashed website Last modified: September 3, 2016 --- # Crashed website * [lesbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbell/) * (@lesbell) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-3/) * Installed this plugin and it caused my website and my whole hosting account to crash. * Don’t know what it was trying to do but it caused a major PHP error and overlaoded the CPU resources. Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) * Moderator [Jan Dembowski](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jdembowski/) * (@jdembowski) * Forum Moderator and Brute Squad * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-3/#post-7926182) * Could you please consider raising a support topic for this plugin instead? * [https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle#postform](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle#postform) * You really don’t know what the situation was that caused that CPU spike and I am sure the author would like to help. The best place for that is a support topic. * Plugin Author [Braam Genis](https://wordpress.org/support/users/braam-genis/) * (@braam-genis) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-3/#post-7926184) * Hi lesbell * Very sorry to hear about the trouble you’ve had. * We haven’t had any reports of anything like this happening before. We’re quite proud of this plugin and would love to do whatever we can to make it work for you. I would greatly appreciate any help you could give me in trying to resolve this issue. * If you open a support topic, would you please tell us which theme you were using and which plugins you had installed at the time the issue occurred. And it would also be very helpful if you could include error logs at around the time the issue occurred. * Thanks very much. * Thread Starter [lesbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbell/) * (@lesbell) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-3/#post-7926185) * Jan Dembowski * “You really don’t know what the situation was that caused that CPU spike” * ???!!!!! * I really do know that the plugin caused the spike and have a report from our webhost server logs. * Les Bell * Thread Starter [lesbell](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lesbell/) * (@lesbell) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-3/#post-7926186) * Braam Genis * I’ll raise a ticket and supply you with the info you asked for. * Les Bell * Plugin Author [Greg – SiteOrigin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gpriday/) * (@gpriday) * [11 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-3/#post-7926199) * To summarise those interested. Braam (our lead developer on the Widget Bundle project) and I investigated the possible cause of this issue. Here is the support thread: [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/siteorigin-widgets-bundle-website-crash](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/siteorigin-widgets-bundle-website-crash) * It seems like a possible cause was a Wordfence scan. Other users have reported high CPU usage during scans. * [https://wordpress.org/search/wordfence+cpu+usage?forums=1](https://wordpress.org/search/wordfence+cpu+usage?forums=1) * I’m sure the Wordfence developers have resolved all these issues. It’s possible that some part of the Widget Bundle is causing the scan to go awry. Braam and I haven’t been able to recreate this issue in our testing environments, but we’ll continue to investigate and reach out to the Wordfence developers if we need to. * We’re very proud of Widget Bundle, so it does hurt to receive a 1-star review, but I’m sure that doesn’t compare to the frustration of having a server crash. We’ll do all we can to ensure this doesn’t happen to our users in the future. * All the best for the future of your project Les. * [bmlawncare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmlawncare/) * (@bmlawncare) * [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-3/#post-7926206) * Good plugin not so good reviewer novice Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total) The topic ‘Crashed website’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/so-widgets-bundle/assets/icon.svg?rev=2556862) * [SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle](https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/so-widgets-bundle/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/so-widgets-bundle/reviews/) * 6 replies * 5 participants * Last reply from: [bmlawncare](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bmlawncare/) * Last activity: [11 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crashed-website-3/#post-7926206)