Title: HTTP problems
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# HTTP problems

 *  [ruffleader1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruffleader1/)
 * (@ruffleader1)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-problems/)
 * Hi everyone,
 * Over the past few days I’ve noticed some issues with my self-hosted WordPress
   installation and I cannot work out how to solve it and from the length of time
   it is taking my host to respond to my ticket based on these sudden issues I don’t
   think they can see a problem.
 * My website to begin in [http://www.espyrock.com](http://www.espyrock.com)
 * The last time I used the website properly was the 11th October before coming 
   back a week later on the 18th to resume some work after taking a week off for
   my birthday and my normal job and it was then I experienced the issues. On the
   11th October everything was perfect and one week with no use has seemingly destroyed
   the setup.
 * I went onto the dashboard on the 18th to find that everything was running slowly.
   I thought possibly at the time I was experiencing high traffic but my stats showed
   normal traffic, nothing which should have resulted in such a slow speed. It took
   around 10 minutes to approve two pending posts sitting before I went to update
   a plugin which I was alerted to. When trying to update the plugin I received 
   errors so I just left it. I then attempted later on to install this new Jetpack
   plugin as I had previously put off doing so but it was then I received the timeout
   error “An Unexpected HTTP Error occurred during the API request.”
 * I looked throughout the forums and found that people suggest to change the timeout
   within the WordPress core files to “60” which I did but it has not solved that
   issue.
 * On the main dashboard I now see the following error “RSS Error: WP HTTP Error:
   name lookup timed out.”
 * Throughout my search I found people suggesting to others to install a plugin 
   titled “Core Control” and to disable cURL. This made absolutely no difference.
 * I have disabled all of my plugins and WordPress still runs terribly slow from
   the frontend of the website to the full admin panel, WordPress has become unusable.
 * Another forum user experienced the same issues as I have and recently too – [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-wp-http-error-name-lookup-timed-outi-and-other-connection-problems](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/rss-error-wp-http-error-name-lookup-timed-outi-and-other-connection-problems).
   He was able to sort his issues by restarting Apache and MySQL. I have done both
   of these and also rebooted my entire VPS but nothing will resolve the issues.
 * I have also tried going back to the original default theme, the errors still 
   persist.
 * Can anyone suggest anything I may have not tried or simply have not discovered?
 * Thank you very much.

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 *  Thread Starter [ruffleader1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruffleader1/)
 * (@ruffleader1)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-problems/#post-2357419)
 * I forgot to add here that I have also reset the plugin folder also from previous
   suggestions on the forum.
 *  Thread Starter [ruffleader1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruffleader1/)
 * (@ruffleader1)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-problems/#post-2357488)
 * I have now downgraded WordPress but still the problems exist. If anyone can suggest
   anything please do, I’m at the point I’ll try anything to get this to work as
   I need the website up and running ASAP.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [ruffleader1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ruffleader1/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/http-problems/#post-2357488)
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