How to reduce the amount of PHP socket connections

[ChrisPAR]

From the response to another topic:

I want to understand what socket connections are and how do I recover from this error?

I see that you’ve already been given some quite elaborate explanations in the replies to your ticket. In general, these “socket connections” are connections made from your site to external services. Socket connections themselves are perfectly normal of course, but excessive outbound connections are suspicious. That could point to someone trying to use our hosting to try to hack other sites or services, which we don’t want to happen. For this reason, we track and count these external connection…

You should be able to ask support what was the cause of hitting the socket connection limit, and get more explanation.

@Shakirakhund

yesterday I was geting truble to upload images then I go to file manager I do some folder permissions and and some changes in wp.config.php after that site was runing good

If the changes were related to the temporary folder missing outage, the issue is now fixed, so I would recommend undoing these changes:

Errors when accessing temporary folders (WordPress & PHP Upload errors)

It appears that the temporary file issue was resolved. I don’t know exactly what happened or the exact timeline of when the issue started and when it was fixed, but it seems to be OK now.

@Herbert

As of my knowledge, you can’t use socket connections on free accounts.

Socket connections can be opened; it is server sockets that are not supported:

@Admin

We do support client sockets on our hosting (which connect from your PHP code to external systems) but not server sockets (which runs a process to listen for incoming connections from other systems)

@Herbert

I am not so sure about the PHP socket limit

If nothing has changed, it should be 10k/month, from what a user who had gotten suspended had shared:

@zephyr707

I am trying to reduce the number of socket connections to stay under the 10k/month free limit

It is an extremely rare suspension so no article exists for it at the moment