Title: Increased PHP Requests
Last modified: September 26, 2018

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# Increased PHP Requests

 *  Resolved [cositadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cositadmin/)
 * (@cositadmin)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-php-requests/)
 * I installed Autoptimize on Sunday night, and it worked well on Monday, I used
   a code suggested in a forum to block Autoptimize from running on pages with “
   noopt” in the address by editing the functions.php file, and have 2 pages with
   that identifier (just trying to give all facts)
 * What’s happening is Tuesday at around 12pm my site all of a sudden got flooded
   with php requests and took the site down. My hosting provider had to restart 
   the apache server, I cleared all caches’ and it worked fine until about an hour
   ago when the exact same thing happened.
 * Is this something you’ve encountered previously, and is there a setting I should
   be adjusting?
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fincreased-php-requests%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-php-requests/#post-10726369)
 * no, that’s not something I’ve encountered before [@cositadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cositadmin/);
   AO is executed inside the normal PHP-process in which WordPress is running and
   does not require extra PHP processes. although I will never say never, I think
   it is _very_ unlikely that AO is causing this behavior.
 * I guess the best way to look into this would be to check the webserver access
   logs for page requests and checking if there’s unusual entries in there?
 * hope this helps,
    frank
 *  Thread Starter [cositadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cositadmin/)
 * (@cositadmin)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-php-requests/#post-10727099)
 * Found the issue, it was just really unfortunate timing with the installation 
   of the Autoptimize.
 * Thanks for your patient reply.
 *  Plugin Author [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * (@optimizingmatters)
 * [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-php-requests/#post-10727702)
 * you’re welcome [@cositadmin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cositadmin/),
   feel free to [leave a review of the plugin and support here](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/autoptimize/reviews/#new-post)!
   🙂

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 * [request](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/request/)

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 * Last reply from: [Optimizing Matters](https://wordpress.org/support/users/optimizingmatters/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/increased-php-requests/#post-10727702)
 * Status: resolved