A WordPress site that goes down again and again usually has one cause: a hosting limit, a heavy plugin, an attack or a bad update. Here's how to tell which.
What it means
Recurring downtime is different from a one-off crash - something is repeatedly pushing the site past a limit. The pattern matters: does it crash at certain times, under traffic, or randomly?
Why it happens
The four usual causes are hosting resource limits (memory, CPU, entry processes), a plugin that spikes under load, brute-force attacks hammering the server, or an update that introduced a slow/leaky process.
What to do
- Check your host's resource usage graphs - spikes before crashes point to limits.
- Look at whether crashes correlate with traffic, cron jobs, or backup windows.
- Review security logs for attack traffic hitting wp-login or xmlrpc.php.
- Audit plugins for known resource hogs and disable what you don't need.
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