Title: This
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# This

 *  [monk3](https://wordpress.org/support/users/monk3/)
 * (@monk3)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-6/)
 * Been using this plugin for awhile and seemed to work well. Then today at about
   noon, the entire site went down with a 500 error. Checking the cPanel error logs
   we found:
    [22-May-2013 12:36:17] PHP Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728
   bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 171037 bytes) in /home1/xxxxxxxxxxx/public_html/
   wp-content/plugins/better-wp-security/inc/filecheck.php on line 220
 * Many times; then many times more with line 494, then more of same with lns 182,
   184 187, 189.
 * After removing the plugin, site back up, but lost an hour on a very busy day.
   Not happy at all.
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [Handoko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handoko-zhang/)
 * (@handoko-zhang)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-6/#post-3776838)
 * Sorry to hear about it.
 * Error 500 means your website is using memory more than allowed. I guess you have
   enabled these features in this Better WP Security:
 * – File Change Detection (under: menu > Security > Intrution Detection)
    – Enable
   Scheduled Backups (under: menu > Security > Database Backup)
 * These two above usually need much memory to run.

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## Tags

 * [better security](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/better-security/)
 * [memory size exhausted](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/memory-size-exhausted/)
 * [site down](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/site-down/)

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 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Handoko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handoko-zhang/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/this-6/#post-3776838)
 * Status: not resolved