Title: WordPress crashing?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# WordPress crashing?

 *  Resolved [vidar42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vidar42/)
 * (@vidar42)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/)
 * Bear with me while I describe this in as much detail as I can.
 * I was attempting to update a page on my website (kubbcanada.com) and noticed 
   it was very slow to load. When I finally got the admin panel up, it said there
   was a new version (3.8) I upgraded to 3.8 and things were still very slow. After
   doing all my updates (plugins, themes etc…) I still had the slowness. My wife
   also runs a site that is hosted on my account (different domain name) and hers
   is also unbearably slow to load. She has not upgraded (nothing changed in at 
   least a month on her site other than perhaps a few posts). I contacted my hosting
   provider (GoDaddy) and they said it was definitely a wordpress problem. I tried
   accessing a file directly on my host and sure enough it was quick.
 * I ran the simple optimizer plugin, the P3 profiler that GoDaddy suggested and
   also the cache plugin. Now both my site and my admin come up intermittently. 
   I get the blank page more than I get anything else now. But sometimes it works.
 * I’m at a total loss as to what could be wrong now….please help

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 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/#post-4458964)
 * Hi Vidar,
 * Have you tried deactivating plugins one by one to see if any of them are causing
   the issue? Sometimes a slow site can be caused by a plugin that sends far too
   many HTTP requests, ultimately slowing your site down to an unbearable speed.
 * Evan
 *  Thread Starter [vidar42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vidar42/)
 * (@vidar42)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/#post-4458968)
 * That’s next on my list, but my issue right now is when I try to deactivate (or
   do anything once I get a page to finally load) is that it goes to the blank screen…
   I refresh till I’m blue in the face but nothing…
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/#post-4458969)
 * I would deactivate all your plugins by changing the plugin folder name temporarily
   via FTP.
 * Change it to plugins-deactivated or something similar. This will deactivate all
   plugins. You should then be able to browse around with no crashing or hang time(
   if one of the plugins was the culprit)
 *  Thread Starter [vidar42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vidar42/)
 * (@vidar42)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/#post-4458976)
 * Disabled by FTP, all is back to normal after reactivaing.
 * Thanks
 *  [Evan Herman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eherman24/)
 * (@eherman24)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/#post-4458980)
 * Great! Quite an annoyance when that occurs. Glad you were able to sort the issue
   in a relatively quick time frame.
 * Have a great new year Vidar
 *  [michaelray](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelray/)
 * (@michaelray)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/#post-4458985)
 * Try and optimize each file in phpmyadmin. Sometimes that helps or just install
   wp-optimize plugin This is the only plugin i use to optimize my website _[Link
   redacted]_
 *  Thread Starter [vidar42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vidar42/)
 * (@vidar42)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/#post-4459040)
 * I do have the optimize installed and running…thanks!

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 7 replies
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 * Last reply from: [vidar42](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vidar42/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-crashing-1/#post-4459040)
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