Title: Overloading Server
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Overloading Server

 *  [freeeye](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freeeye/)
 * (@freeeye)
 * [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overloading-server/)
 * I have shared hosting for one phpbb3 and 6 WordPress sites. I’ve had these sites
   up for over 4 years and I have minimal expertise with php and mysql. It’s a tribute
   to open source companies like WordPress and PHPBB that someone like me can run
   sites like these.
 * Last week my host said that I was overloading the server and shutting it down
   with 2 of the wordpress sites and the phpbb3 site. They sent me a readout to 
   demonstrate this.
 * As a result, those 3 websites had their database servers shut down for 3 days(
   the others remained active). After 3 days, the host turned on the database servers
   and things seemed great for a day or so.
 * Then the databases started bogging down and disappearing again with database 
   errors.
 * What I am asking, and I don’t know if this is the appropriate place, is what 
   can I do if it is my websites causing this overloading? I would not even know
   where to start hiring someone to clean things up if the problem is something 
   in the scripts, much less would I know what to do, myself.
 * Right before the databases were shut off last week, I was hit with the admin 
   password change problem that caused the new version to be issued. Otherwise, 
   everything is as it ever was, except for recent updates and posts.
 * I always run the latest versions of wordpress and phpbb3.
 * Could this be some type of external attack? Could it be something I’ve done (
   such as installing or running incompatible plugins)? And how do I find out? And
   fix this? This situation is bad.
 * What do I do next?

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/overloading-server/)
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