Title: error
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# error

 *  Resolved [sborg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sborg/)
 * (@sborg)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-45/)
 * This is a message I got when I tried to get into my site:
 * Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate
   30720 bytes) in /home7/stephey2/public_html/wp-content/plugins/powerpress/powerpressadmin-
   metabox.php on line 515
 * Any ideas on how I can correct this?

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 *  [ce_bradm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ce_bradm/)
 * (@ce_bradm)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-45/#post-2014959)
 * Hi sborg,
 * The error message you’re receiving seems to indicate that your Power Press plugin
   is attempting to use a significant amount of memory on your server, or at least
   more than what you have configured.
 * 1. Has powerpress been working all along for you, or is this your first time 
   getting it setup?
 * 2. Have you recently made any changes to your site? For example, did this error
   begin after you published a new post?
 * 3. What is the URL to the page with the issue?
 * Thanks,
 * – Brad
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-45/#post-2014960)
 *     ```
       1. Try adding this line to your wp-config.php file:
       Increasing memory allocated to PHP
       define('WP_MEMORY_LIMIT', '128M');
   
       2. If you have access to your PHP.ini file, change the line in PHP.ini
       If your line shows 32M try 64M:
       memory_limit = 128M ; Maximum amount of memory a script may consume (128MB)
   
        3. If you don't have access to PHP.ini try adding this to an .htaccess file:
       php_value memory_limit 128M
   
        Talk to your host.
       ```
   
 *  [ce_bradm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ce_bradm/)
 * (@ce_bradm)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-45/#post-2014965)
 * Hi sborg,
 * Just a quick comment on Samuel B’s response below mine.
 * If your site has been working just fine all along, and suddenly this issue arises,
   it would be a good idea to find out why. Samuel is pointing you in the direction
   of resolving your problem, which is probably what you want, but you’ll also want
   to understand how changing your member limit could have other effects.
 * If you set your php memory limit to 128M, then it will allow your Power Press
   plugin to use the ~67MB that it is asking for. Let’s say that you have a very
   busy website and you get 10 visitors at the same time, that’s 67MB x 10 visitors,
   putting you at ~670M, which is significant. If you have a shared hosting account,
   after a while the System Administrators may notice the excessive memory usage
   and ask that you upgrade to either a VPS or fully dedicated server, which is 
   going to cost you more money.
 * Also, if you don’t know what is causing the high memory usage, what are you going
   to do if you begin to get errors that say Power Press (or some other script) 
   is trying to use 200MB of memory? You could once again simply increase your php
   memory limit, but again you’re going to be using many more resources on the server(
   which is probably shared with other websites as well).
 * Most likely Samuel’s suggestions will resolve your problem, however just keep
   in mind that if you simply install a fix and do not understand why you need the
   fix, you may be asking for trouble down the road.
 * Thanks,
 * – Brad
 *  [ce_bradm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ce_bradm/)
 * (@ce_bradm)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-45/#post-2015125)
 * On a side note, you can find more info on the memory_limit setting by going to
   [http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php](http://php.net/manual/en/ini.core.php)
 *  Thread Starter [sborg](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sborg/)
 * (@sborg)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-45/#post-2015197)
 * Thanks, all of you. I am going to call BlueHost to work on getting this resolved,
   and I’ll have all your intelligent input to share with them. Otherwise, I wouldn’t
   know what to tell them 🙂 Thanks for your generous help.

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