Title: Stuck processes?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Stuck processes?

 *  [everettal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everettal/)
 * (@everettal)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-processes/)
 * I checked my site this morning to be greeted by an HTTP 500 error.
 * I contacted my host (Bluehost) who pointed me to the Process View in cPanel and
   indicated something was “stuck”. I needed to kill all processes with “index” 
   or “cron” in them.
 * After playing “whack-a-mole” for ten minutes, I put an index.html file in my 
   webroot so visitors would see SOMETHING and renamed index.php. Then I was able
   to kill all of the processes.
 * However, when I put things back I’m still getting the error.
 * I suspect I have a misbehaving plugin. I’m planning to clear out my plugins directory
   and see if I can get the site back. (There’s not much I can do now being at my“
   day job”.)
 * Is there anything else I should be looking at? What if dropping all the plugins
   doesn’t work?

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 * [500 error](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/500-error/)
 * [processes](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/processes/)

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 * Last reply from: [everettal](https://wordpress.org/support/users/everettal/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stuck-processes/)
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