Title: 500 Server Errors
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# 500 Server Errors

 *  Resolved [GreywolfComputer](https://wordpress.org/support/users/greywolfcomputer/)
 * (@greywolfcomputer)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-server-errors-1/)
 * Received notices that there were some plugin updates on one of my sites. Updated
   7 plugins. Akismet and Jetpack were two of them. After working with the dashboard,
   mostly in posts, for a little while, the site slowed to a crawl and started giving
   500 server errors. I had to disable the plugins via FTP. I started re-enabling
   the updated plugins 1 by 1 and it looks like Akismet is the problem. When Akismet
   3.1.8 is enabled, things work ok for a minute or two, then site speed starts 
   to decline until server 500 errors after about 20 minutes.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/akismet/)

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 *  [Hvheart1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hvheart1/)
 * (@hvheart1)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-server-errors-1/#post-7146667)
 * I began getting a 502 error after updating 3 plug-ins, Akismet was one of them.
   One of them is changing my DNS number on my Domain Name host. I am using a wp
   server and had my DNS set to go to it. I restored to a previous version after
   changing my DNS back to my wp server and tried updating one at a time. It happened
   again.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/500-server-errors-1/#post-7146667)
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