girendra

I am dealing with the same issues around calls to admin-ajax.php. Our website inewsguyana.com was working fine without incidents for over 8 months. A few days ago the dedicated server crippled from overwhelming process request to admin-ajax.php. The following are actions we took:

– We diactivated the HeartBeat API site wide but that did not solve the problem.

– We disabled all the plugins and switch the theme to the default twentyfifteen theme and the problem still presented itself.

– We inserted rules only to alloy our single IP to access the website and the server load returned to normal. (but now the site is not accessible to the world – so this of course was not a solution but just a test).

– We restored our plugins, updated our main theme files (Effective News) and inserted the following to prevent floods from calls to admin-ajax.php: here are the .htaccess rules:

ErrorDocument 416 “Requested Range Not Satisfiable”
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} “/wp-admin/admin-ajax.php”
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ – [R=416,L]

At the moment the server load is normal – under 1 but functions that depend on admin-ajax.php is now crippled.

Still hunting for a solution. Any help, suggestion will be appreciated.

Timeuser – I tried what you said but it has not worked for me. I am using RTTheme 17 – stats worked fine until the upgrade to wordpress 3.5. I tried removing JetPack and seting it up again and still.

Please help somebody, anybody :/