Your plugin destroyed my site…until I uninstalled it.

  • threedogmoon

    (@threedogmoon)


    10 years ago

    Not sure what the hell you folks are doing, but W3 is a heavy resource eating plugin. I’ve had it running nicely for around a year, but now it’s caused terrible 500 server errors, DB connection errors, and WSOD.

    I removed it, and WHAM-O — ironically, my website is faster than it has ever been. There should be some major warnings on this plugin. I’m sure some folks can set it up to work well, but this was the last straw for me. Too much at stake to have sites going down after WP updates.

    https://wordpress.org/plugins/w3-total-cache/

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  • Dandydahlia

    (@dandydahlia)

    10 years ago

    My site constantly has “Fatal error” out of memory and it’s only todo with this plugin – is that a bug?

    Thread Starter threedogmoon

    (@threedogmoon)

    10 years ago

    I have no idea. I think probably W3 didn’t play nice with the newest updates to wordpress and possibly other plugins.

    For me it is way too complex of a plugin, and although I’ve used it very successfully for awhile, I am finished with it. I cannot have plugins that will take down active business websites. Also, the support offered by the W3 team is way too expensive and seems mercenary style based on the knowledge of how complex the plugin and its operations are.

    I must say though, that initially the team at W3 did answer all my questions and help me for free with the setup. I wouldn’t mind paying either, but not the prices quoted in the admin panel.

    Going to give another plugin a shot.

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