I looked at the data files, and see that they are huge and complex, way beyond me even imagining what is going on there… I don’t do code except at some very very very (emphasize very) elementary levels, css and html a bit, and php snippets from others when it is clear where they go and what they are for…
I appreciate what slimstat does, which is a lot, and all the ways it is very helpful and pretty cool actually, and really appreciate you (and perhaps there are others) for making it available for free…
I can also understand your seeing it as a possible server issue… I am though a little cautious about that, because of two recent previous issues where slimstat clobbered our sites, all of them not just one, in a similar way, and it was clearly in your own words even slimstat with incomplete files that did it… And how the error this once time again is clearly identifying slimstat…
You seem to be suggesting that the server because of security reasons could be rewriting code in a file, changing it, or something similar…
Some considerations…
I don’t know enough to know if a server could or would rewrite or alter code in a file that is uploaded… All the data files are there… They are filled to the brim with code, I don’t know if I have ever seen such huge, long .php files…
I would think though that a server for security reasons might block a file with a suspicious string of code in it, but not actually change it… And, I don’t know…
If it were a server security issue I would think that it would also be happening on our other site that has slimstat currently active and updated… So far it isn’t…
We use a whole lot of plugins, being very, very careful about which, and have never had an issue similar to this with any of them… I’ve never had one not update/install in an incomplete or corrupted way like you are suggesting, at least that I know of, I.E., no issues that bring up errors like slimstat has on three update occasions now…
So as said, hard for me at this point to believe it is merely a server issue…
You also say that slimstat won’t be giving accurate results if the files are being changed… If that were the case there would be no point in using it…
All this leaves mostly unknowns… You are the expert here, I am not even at a novice level with any of this… I am also imagining, because of what slimstat does, that you know servers…
No conclusions, just kind of the terrain as I seem to see it at the moment… The thing is, the issue occurred, and I’m still here… But it needs to be your knowledge and experience that resolves things… If you don’t have the motivation, maybe because it is not widespread or whatever, then this goes nowhere… In which case I’ll let it go, and move on…
Kind regards…
