WPD Content Plug-Ins: DANGEROUS!! Use at your own risk!!

[jaspereliot]

To all 30DC folks: :eek::eek::eek: Ed warned us -- and he was right! If you're not especially careful of what you are doing with the WordPress Direct content plug-ins: WordPress Answers, YouTube2Wordpress, etc. you can get into trouble with these plug-ins. I am admittedly a neophyte, as are many 30DC participants, and I set up my plug-ins to pull in more threads than my hosting service could handle. (I am hosted at HostGator). Now, my sites are constantly going DOWN because I have Cron jobs that are running which create active processes in excess of the 25 available in HostGator. Whenever I check my cPanel, I can see that 27 of 25 processes are running; thus, the site goes down. I can manually kill the processes, but they come right back up, over and over again. I can also go into the 'Cron job' section of cPanel and try to kill everything--which I have done over and over and over again--but still, there is a parent script that rebuilds the wp-cron.php file and runs these god-forsaken processes. What might be useful is if the WordPress Direct support team were to provide some basic instruction on how to kill their auto-posting plug-ins so that Cron jobs do not run amok on our host's servers. Anyway, I hope this proves of some benefit to some of the other 30DC participants.

[IMStrong]

What might be useful is if the WordPress Direct support team were to provide some basic instruction on how to kill their auto-posting plug-ins so that Cron jobs do not run amok on our host's servers. participants.
The title of your post really should be "WPD Content Plug-Ins: DANGEROUS!! misuse at your own risk!!"
Go set your auto-posting software to Supervised Posting.
There is a video on it: Tutorial 3 - Be Your Site’s Editor With Supervised Hosting
You'll find it in the How It Works page.
People really need to take responsibility for the way they use the software. I am not unsympathetic, and I hope others will benefit from your mistake.

[jaspereliot]

The title of your post really should be "WPD Content Plug-Ins: DANGEROUS!! misuse at your own risk!!"
Go set your auto-posting software to Supervised Posting.
There is a video on it: Tutorial 3 - Be Your Site’s Editor With Supervised Hosting
You'll find it in the How It Works page.
People really need to take responsibility for the way they use the software. I am not unsympathetic, and I hope others will benefit from your mistake.
Couldn't agree with you more! I screwed up and now I'm paying the price. Perhaps I'm the only newbie who'll get into this kind of trouble; well, I hope so! And, by the way, I totally take responsibility for my screw-ups. I did it; I admitted it, and I posted this thread to say clearly to other newbies to simply be careful and don't make the same mistakes I did. I hope that came across as intended although I suspect its possible to interpret this as placing outside blame which was not the intent. Again, this was my mistake.

[Sidian M.S. Jones]

Jasper thank you for the heads up. Good of you to warn the rest of us.

[IMStrong]

Thanks for the clarification. I totally respect taking responsibility fior our actions.
I thought your title was a little mis-leading, but you cleared it up nicely.
Did you shut off your auto-posters?

[andy]

Jasper,
Thanks for sharing you misfortune with us. A lot of people would have just quietly changed their ways but you were willing to help us all learn. Thanks for the honesty.

[ishabluebell]

I echo that Jasper. Thanks.

:cool:

Isha