Title: wp-admin/admin-ajax.php
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wp-admin/admin-ajax.php

 *  [nickmcook](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nickmcook/)
 * (@nickmcook)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminadmin-ajaxphp-1/)
 * HI there I run a hosting company and have many wordpress sites on my server. 
   I have one that went live a few days ago, which is just eating bandwidth. All
   the hits are going to wp-admin/admin-ajax.php. I have seen a few posts from other
   people about this, but no answers. Please can someone tell me how to deal with
   this, as it’s using far too many resources on the server. Word press install 
   is the latest. Is there some kind of mod, htaccess that can be done?
 * Regards
    Nick

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 *  [bobdebilder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobdebilder/)
 * (@bobdebilder)
 * [15 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminadmin-ajaxphp-1/#post-1620129)
 * Could someone be so kind as to address this problem, please?
 * Much appreciated
 *  [Gingah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gingah/)
 * (@gingah)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminadmin-ajaxphp-1/#post-1620159)
 * This is actually NOT eating bandwith; admin-ajax.php is what enables all ajax-
   features (usability without navigating away from a page) in WordPress, and it
   greatly reduces server-loads because of this:
 * An ajax call to altar something usually only call a single or a few functions
   within WordPress, rather than calling the same functions ASWELL as loading the
   entire page associated with this altaration (as would happen without ajax).
 * Most hits do go to admin-ajax.php, because it is called everytime ajax is utilized
   within WordPress. If anything, tell your statistics-system to ignore this file,
   or at least count this traffic as internal rather than actual hits (unless admin-
   ajax is used as a frontend, in which case you might actually have a problem of
   over-use of ajax-functionality).
 *  [bobdebilder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobdebilder/)
 * (@bobdebilder)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminadmin-ajaxphp-1/#post-1620160)
 * Thank you Gingah

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [bobdebilder](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bobdebilder/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-adminadmin-ajaxphp-1/#post-1620160)
 * Status: not resolved

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