Title: Server Error 500 — Memory Exhausted Error
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Server Error 500 — Memory Exhausted Error

 *  Resolved [June Cleaver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgom9021msncom/)
 * (@bgom9021msncom)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-memory-exhausted-error/)
 * I’ve been receiving the Server error 500 for about a week now about 40% of the
   the times that I do anything on the website from the simplest page view to back-
   end admin tasks. The PHP error log contains numerous occurrences of the following
   message.
 * [25-Jan-2016 16:18:09 UTC] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 268435456 
   bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 7340009 bytes) in /home/sbwebspot/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/core/modules/backup/class-itsec-backup.
   php on line 206
 * That’s a lot of memory! Deactivating the iThemes Security plugin has stopped 
   the server errors and the error log entries. Naturally this gives me an uncomfortable
   feeling in more ways than one.
 * Does anyone have any ideas what the issue may be?
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-memory-exhausted-error/#post-6987799)
 * [@june](https://wordpress.org/support/users/june/) Cleaver
 * The problem is caused by the Scheduled Database Backup feature of the iTSec plugin.
 * Disable it temporarily and then wait and see whether that fixes the issue.
 * dwinden
 *  [dwinden](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dwinden/)
 * (@dwinden)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-memory-exhausted-error/#post-6987983)
 * [@june](https://wordpress.org/support/users/june/) Cleaver
 * If you require no further assistance please mark this topic as ‘resolved’.
 * dwinden
 *  Thread Starter [June Cleaver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgom9021msncom/)
 * (@bgom9021msncom)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-memory-exhausted-error/#post-6987986)
 * The recommended step did stop the server 500 (out of memory) errors. Thanks a
   bunch. Most curious that this could be an issue in a mature product.

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 * Last reply from: [June Cleaver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bgom9021msncom/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/server-error-500-memory-exhausted-error/#post-6987986)
 * Status: resolved