One site disconnects repeatedly

I never had any disconnects until now, but now there is one site that disconnects repeatedly. Reconnecting after deactivating and reactivating the child plugin works for a short time.
The only thing I can think of that is different to all other sites I maintain is that it is redirected to a subdirectory install via index.php:
require( dirname( FILE ) . ‘/sub.directory/wp-blog-header.php’ );

TIA for your help.


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Hi Lukas, for the start, can you please confirm that you are running the latest MainWP Child 4.0.7 on your child site and if the problem persists if you temporarily deactivate all plugins except for MainWP Child on the site?

Thanks Bogdan, 4.0.7 confirmed.
Sorry, I can’t take the site offline that long (it just launched).
Most of the plugins are the same as those on most of my sites that never disconnect.
And I don’t see anything suspicious with the ones that are special.
Don’t you suspect that redirection thing?

Hi Lukas, I had a problem with 2 sites being disconnected also. It turns out that my url in my site settings was http instead of https. Could this be your issue also?

thanks, http/https wasn’t my issue, but since the disconnects stopped today, it most probably was a temporary problem with the hosting service’s shared server. I also saw Gateway Timeouts when a plugin update finished and while staging the site using WP Time Capsule.

Thanks also @bogdan

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Hi Lukas, thanks for letting us know. Please monitor your sites over the next couple of days and let us know if the problem comes back.

Gateway Timeout is probably the server-side problem, so if the problem continues, please check with your host about increasing certain limitations that cause this.

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Hey Lukas, is everything ok with the site last few days?

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