Title: [NSFW] Self-referring requests? Last modified: May 8, 2022 --- # [NSFW] Self-referring requests? * Resolved [zanzaboonda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanzaboonda/) * (@zanzaboonda) * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-referring-requests/) * Hello, * My hosting provider temporarily took my site offline because they said my site consumed more than 160,000 CPU seconds in the last 24 hours. * There were only two changes made during this time. 1. I installed and started using this plugin. 2. I temporarily disabled their caching system. * They said it should not be from the caching issue. * Is this something that this plugin could cause? * “The IP address that accessed your website the most is your accounts one “xx. xxx.xx.xxx”. That indicates that your website is spawns a lot of self-referring requests. That can occur due to a malfunctioning script, plugin or function.” * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fself-referring-requests%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * Plugin Author [SpeakOut! Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123host/) * (@123host) * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-referring-requests/#post-15625347) * I have never heard of this happening before. * You should be able to see (or get from your host) a copy of the log telling you what script is causing this. * If you can show it is being caused by SpeakOut! I will investigate, but I will need more information than you have provided. * Thread Starter [zanzaboonda](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zanzaboonda/) * (@zanzaboonda) * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-referring-requests/#post-15625350) * I don’t know how this got marked NSFW. lol They swore it wasn’t the caching issue, but it 100% was! I got the logs from them. But thank you for responding and so quickly! They sent me into panic mode. Took me down without warning, etc., So I had to investigate. Anyways, not for you to worry about. Thanks!! * Plugin Author [SpeakOut! Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123host/) * (@123host) * [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-referring-requests/#post-15625354) * Thanks for the update. You are going to ask them for compensation, right? ;o) Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘[NSFW] Self-referring requests?’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/speakout/assets/icon-256x256.png?rev=1649238) * [SpeakOut! Email Petitions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/speakout/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/speakout/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/speakout/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/speakout/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/speakout/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/speakout/reviews/) ## Tags * [hosting](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hosting/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [SpeakOut! Steve](https://wordpress.org/support/users/123host/) * Last activity: [3 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/self-referring-requests/#post-15625354) * Status: resolved