Title: When submitting posts WordPress dies
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# When submitting posts WordPress dies

 *  [fatback](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatback/)
 * (@fatback)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-submitting-posts-wordpress-dies/)
 * I have WordPress 2.02 installed on a Godaddy Linux/php server. Recently when 
   I post I hit submit and the data is written to the database but the post.php 
   page just stays there and never refreshes to a new page. After about 5 minutes
   I get a download prompt to “open post.php or save to a file?”. Also, my attachment
   pages have not been getting written correctly. When I click thumbnails that are
   supposed to “open as new page” I get a error that says there is no data available
   that fits that criteria. These could be separate issues, but I wanted to see 
   if anyone else having the same problem

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 *  [elfminster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elfminster/)
 * (@elfminster)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-submitting-posts-wordpress-dies/#post-388985)
 * Oops, I just posted the exact same problem above. Sorry, I did not see your post.
   yes, I get this exact same problem…dialogue box appears asking me to “Save As…”–
   I am thinking it is a host performance issue, maybe, because I have had it happen
   on other php scripts when the server load has been > 2…but I might be wrong.
 * What is your server load?
 *  [Chris_K](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handysolo/)
 * (@handysolo)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-submitting-posts-wordpress-dies/#post-388986)
 * With a spot of searching, you’ll find this a very common complaint for the last
   week or so. The typical response is to visit your Options -> Writing page and
   remove pingomatic from your Update Services section. It seems to be overwhelmed.
 *  [elfminster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elfminster/)
 * (@elfminster)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-submitting-posts-wordpress-dies/#post-388988)
 * Aha, so your advice would be to ping manually?
 *  [abraat](https://wordpress.org/support/users/abraat/)
 * (@abraat)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-submitting-posts-wordpress-dies/#post-388990)
 * My problem’s slightly different. I have four different blogs, and none of them
   are letting me publish posts.
 * It takes 30 seconds of waiting before the post is published, then it tells me
   the post has been saved.
 * But nothing shows up on the front page of the blog.
 *  Thread Starter [fatback](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fatback/)
 * (@fatback)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-submitting-posts-wordpress-dies/#post-389013)
 * HandySolo-
    Removing Pingomatic totally worked. THANKS!

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 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/when-submitting-posts-wordpress-dies/#post-389013)
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