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A client on my server tried to update his WP site to 3.1 using autoupdate. It failed, but after the attempt it suddenly created a major server load and crashed the server. I took the site off line.

In attempts to help the customer, I manually updated his site without any plugins. Just to be sure that was not the issue. Once I upgraded the db all heck broke loose and the server load shot up and nearly crashed the box again. I took it off line.

There seems to be some kind of loop that is sending out requests in a loop. The bandwidth went nuts.

This is a good friend of mine and I’ve let him place his site on one of our servers. I hate to boot him off, but unless someone can tell me what to do here.. I have to give him a choice to move him to another CMS or go to another host.

I have a couplf of other customers that have Word Press sites and now I’m worried. I may have to have all WP sites removed from our servers as I can’t control this. We don’t over load our boxes and I only have a handful of sites hosted that I don’t manage. Those happen to be the small WP sites. They will be updating soon I’m sure.

I have massive Joomla sites on one of my boxes, running tons of videos lots of traffic and there are never any of these issues. I can’t understand why a simple blog with modest traffic can kill an entire zeon server with 4 GB of Ram.

Suggestions… please!

I cannot understand why WP cannot issue an update with an editor that works correctly. The additional time it takes to remove extraneous characters and add linebreak code after creating an article or posting is absolutely ridiculous. If this was not a customer’s site, I would have ripped it out long ago and moved it to Joomla.

I’ve upgraded to the latest and greatest. Is there anything in the future plans to address this? The editor is the core of the application. For heaven’s sake it’s blog software with a broken editor.