RE: https://mementomori.social/@juergen_hubert/115984654197203481
I am having a massive outage. Again. And the hosting provider doesn't allow the installation of additional tools that might help me get to the bottom of this.
Now I am contemplating that I might host my own non-public #Apache server on my own desktop PC (running Windows 11) and run the #MediaWiki #PHP code there as a private instance for testing purposes.
Whether I can replicate this problem there or not - either should be instructice.
But since I am very much a newbie at this, can anyone point be to a good guide for this kind of thing?
Still trying to figure out my website outages.
To recap: I have two #MediaWiki wikis and one #WordPress site. And there seems to be _some_ background process which starts soon after 23:00 UTC (or 24:00 in France, where the servers are located) which puts such a strain on the website that I get a lot of "504" errors for a few hours. The exact duration is variable - sometimes it lasts for one or two hours, and sometimes it lasts way into the morning. But I cannot identify what causes it from the Apache logs - there is no clear, consistent trigger to be found there.
Last time I asked customer support, they suggested that I check my plugins and background processes. But I don't know enough about website administration to know where to look.
For what it's worth, my WordPress website uses the following plugins (all updated to the latest versions):
ActivityPub
Contact Form 7
Include Mastodon Feed
JM Twitter Cards
Leaflet Map
MC4WP: Mailchimp for WordPress
TablePress
WP DSGVO Tools (GDPR)
The site is here:
https://sunkencastles.com/
The extensions on my wiki can be found here:
https://wiki.sunkencastles.com/wiki/Special:Version
Does _anyone_ have any idea what kinds of background processes on MediaWiki or WordPress might cause this kind of outage, and how I could check it?
