Hi,

I am the sysadmin for a hosting company in the UK and we are seeing severe problems at the moment caused by the wp-translate plugin. After tracing the process, I was able to determine that Google was rejecting the connection. The plugin was then going into an infinite loop continuously trying to connect to Google and failing every time. This would only end when our webserver software was forcibly terminating the process for going over the sandbox limits.

So far the only way we can prevent this is to disable the plugin completely. This probably wouldn’t be as much of a problem if it wasn’t for Google attempting to also index the website and requesting translations of every single page on the site…

Just thought you should know. We will be informing all our customers using the plugin that we are disabling it and to check your site for updates. Ideally, in the case of a failure by the translation engine it should just gracefully die instead of trying to kill the webserver