Title: Fatal error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Fatal error

 *  [shanse2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shanse2/)
 * (@shanse2)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-256/)
 * Our website went down earlier today, and from checking the error log, it appears
   that an error in WordPress caused it to crash. We rebooted the server and everything
   works fine now, but I’m just not sure how to fix it so it doesn’t happen again.
   Here’s the error message:
    PHP Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds
   exceeded in C:\\xxxxx\\wp-includes\\wp-db.php on line 560
 * Here’s lines 559-561 in the wp-db.php file:
 *     ```
       function __destruct() {
       		return true;
       	}
       ```
   
 * Does anyone know what caused the problem and how to fix it?

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 *  Thread Starter [shanse2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shanse2/)
 * (@shanse2)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-256/#post-1907957)
 * We just got the same problem again today. Has anyone ever experienced this?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/fatal-error-256/#post-1907957)
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