Title: Help Needed
Last modified: April 14, 2017

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# Help Needed

 *  [joelew2010](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelew2010/)
 * (@joelew2010)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-71/)
 * Hello,
 * I have recently began to encounter a very annoying problem with my website. The
   site and dashboard will work intermittently but will stop working almost every
   five minutes. When the site or wp-admin area fails to load, it shows an error
   message ERR_CONNECTION_RESET
 * I have read various bits of advice and have tried de-activating plugins, creating
   a new htaccess file using the permalink method and temporarily de-activating 
   the theme to see if that is the problem. Nothing has worked.
 * I am grateful for any advice.
 * Thanks

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 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-71/#post-9032110)
 * If your website is acoupleofadventurers.com I’d start from talking to your hosting
   company…
 *  Thread Starter [joelew2010](https://wordpress.org/support/users/joelew2010/)
 * (@joelew2010)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-71/#post-9032802)
 * I have and they fobbed me off saying it wasn’t a problem at their end. How can
   I know that it is?
 *  [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * (@sinip)
 * [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-71/#post-9033720)
 * Well, if you haven’t done anything with your website before the issue appeared,
   then I’d say that the only remaining culprit when a website is acting like that–
   is hosting.
    After all, you can do a small test. There are free hosting companies
   that offer their subdomain if you don’t have your own. Use one of those and make
   an exact copy of your website there, and let it run. If it works ok (for free
   hosting) then you know who’s to blame.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [sinip](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sinip/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/help-needed-71/#post-9033720)
 * Status: not resolved

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