It’s been a while now that i’m using WordPress; and I know it quite well.
But this time, I’ve got a problem I’ve never seen :
My website freezes as soon as I try to go to the backend.
The frontend works, but when I go to /wp-admin, it stops working and eventually fires a “ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT” error.
Then the whole website (and FTP) is then down for about 5 minutes, then it comes back.
I don’t know what as been changed since last time it worked.
Here’s what I did try so far :
- override my WordPress folder with a fresh install
- disable plugins (renamed wp-content/plugins to wp-content/pluginsOLD)
- disable current theme (renamed wp-content/themes/my-theme to wp-content/themes/my-themeOLD)
- edited wp-config.php file to enable debugging with WP_DEBUG, WP_DEBUG_LOG and SAVEQUERIES set to true; no debug.log is generated.
I also considered a server issue and waited for about 24hours. But my other websites (which are hosted on the same place) just work fine.
Any ideas about this ? I’m getting mad 🙂
My host had blacklisted my IP, that’s why I wasn’t able to access it.
I guess each time I was trying to access the backend, they did freeze my website to avoid an attack or something.
Well, this may be interesting for others. If I had knew it, I would have change my IP… :/