GoDaddy Server Issues

Anonymous

#252629

We have ACF & S&F Pro working nicely for our property listings. Could be coincidental, but since going live 2 weeks ago, uptime monitor shows the site going up & down several times a day, often during non-business hours — and GoDaddy reports show this happening due to resource issues. This is a 4 field search against 100 items — results are returned within 2 seconds. Thoughts?? Any chance there is a bot constantly tapping the “search” button?? tfgre.com

Trevor

#252642

You would need to access the server logs. The most common thing I see that does this is a site SEO comparison tool that uses a bot named SemrushBot. Your competitors will use this tool to see how they are doing versus your site.

Anonymous

#252783

Thanks for the reply and feedback. SemrushBot for competitive feedback is a possibility, but wouldn’t suspect it to be triggering the Search button. GoDaddy hasn’t been much help, no surprise, but they do want to sell more hosting resources, of course. I went thru all the backend settings, found 1 that could have been an issue, also updated to the latest PHP level. Not conclusive yet, but no downtime the past 16 hours.

Trevor

#252790

Mmm. I will leave this thread open for now for you to follow up on.

Anonymous

#253075

Still working this with GoDaddy. Any known conflicts between S&F Pro and these plugins?

Advanced Custom Fields
BackUpWordPress
Carousel Slider
Compress JPEG & PNG images
ManageWP – Worker
Ninja Forms
Post Types Order
Really Simple SSL
reCaptcha by BestWebSoft
Redirection
Search & Filter Pro
Search & Filter Pro – Divi Extension
SF Move Login
Smush
Sucuri Security
Wordfence Security
WP Fastest Cache
Yoast Duplicate Post
Yoast SEO

Trevor

#253090

Post Types Order can interfere with the query, but shouldn’t be the cause. Your security plugins may need to whitelist our plugin accessing the database (I have had that using Wordfence firewall before now). I am unsure if you need both Securi and Wordfence?

It would be best to sort out any SSL issues in the database by searching for and replacing http://mywebsite.com with https://mywebsite.com (use https://wordpress.org/plugins/go-live-update-urls/) and then using your site .htaccess rules to force to SSL (also in wp-config.php set force admin to SSL).

A sample .htaccess force SSL and force no use of www ruleset:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.mywebsite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://mywebsite.com/$1 [L,R=301]
RewriteCond %{HTTP:X-Forwarded-Proto} !https
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ https://%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

In wp-config:

define('FORCE_SSL_ADMIN', true);

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