I have the same issue. It happens every 30 Minutes or so, then after 5-15 Minutes I can access the wp-admin panel again. On the regular domain that I linked to the Main Page of my site the user is asked to install wordpress, and I am asked to install it. When I do a long error log appears, and then after some time i get the message that Wordpress appears to be already installed, then I can login and access everything again.
I registered yesterday, and I also kept having this exact same problem. Even your visitors see the WP install page instead of your site when it happens Right now (we are 10 hours later compared to your message), it is still the same
@000webhost I’m really sorry, some free hosting is amazing and everything, and sure, I may upgrade to a paid plan later, but right now, I would just like to publish something to try, and this is unusable !!! (I wanted to do it now. Already yesterday actually. You know how it is these days.) TBH, seeing such things happen do not give any confidence to get a paid plan (even if the story is that, “oh yeah, with a paid plan everything works…”).
I understand some problems may be hard to solve, but I hope this get solved quickly (especially as I guess if affects a lot of people trying to visit all the free sites). Take care.
@Infinity What is the situation concerning these problems you were having ? Did you manage to solve things ? Or when can we expect it to be OK ? (I see the message on top of the forum is still appearing)
Rate limiting is a forever thing, as soon as you reach hourly free plan limits any database script will likely face issues which is why WordPress gets confused and shows the install page a lot of the time.
Oh ! So I was under the wrong impressions since the beginning. This seems to correctly explain what I experienced. Now, I’m a little confused. I have the feeling to have reached this limits very easily by only accessing the website myself. Even without any installation !? I now fear this will be a problem very quickly if a few users browse a little … And I guess you can’t really know when you’ll reach these limits. Doesn’t seem very usable ;( I would definitely have preferred something working correctly for a limited period of time. Anyway, thanks for your answers !!!