Title: Too many plugins?
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Too many plugins?

 *  [sailingspider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sailingspider/)
 * (@sailingspider)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-plugins-4/)
 * Hi all,
    I’m having issues with my website host. The site is constantly going
   down. According to the hosts the site is going down (database server connection
   error) because of too many plugins, however I only have 2 or 3 plugins activated.
   The hosts are saying it’s causing too many database quiries.
 * Is this normal or should I move hosts?

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 *  Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/)
 * (@bethannon1)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-plugins-4/#post-5473579)
 * The question isn’t really whether you have too many plugins, it’s do you have
   even one badly written (or poorly configured) plugin that is the source of your
   issues.
 * Try installing and running this plugin profiler, which might be able to tell 
   you which plugin is the resource hog:
    [https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/p3-profiler/)
 * Once you have identified the problem plugin, you can usually find another plugin
   that does the same/similar thing that will make the queries it needs more efficiently.
 *  Thread Starter [sailingspider](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sailingspider/)
 * (@sailingspider)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-plugins-4/#post-5473604)
 * Thanks for that.
 * Sadly everything seems to have gone up in the air. It appears my hosts have accidently
   deleted my SQL database and a few ftp folders, including my back ups
 *  Moderator [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/)
 * (@bethannon1)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-plugins-4/#post-5473621)
 * Ouch! Sorry to hear that! Sounds like it might be time for a new hosting company…

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 * Last reply from: [Bet Hannon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bethannon1/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/too-many-plugins-4/#post-5473621)
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