gow2portal

had a very similar problem. Thank you so much for your detailed post.

The reason we had issues with our site was because of images that did not exist. The same exact reason that you had.

You were spot on to say what you had said.

One thing that you can do.. is goto your cPanel on your hosting.. then goto the logs, or errors.. and you will see the file paths that come up as an error on your site, and the referring site that is looking for them!

I managed to find the root cause of the issue right away, and resolved it.

It turned out that it was a widget on the homepage, that had a couple of images from a series of scrolling images that were missing.

This meant every user who came onto the site could not view it and it was causing the “Entry Processes” to overload, eventually making the site go down.

The images are extremely tiresome on the entry processes. For some reason. It turns out your server or hosting will spend a lot of its resource desperately trying to find these images for you. How sweet of it. But its not a good idea, because it makes the site go down 🙁