I used a wordpress blogsite for one my subdomains. For five months, it worked out well. The blogsite was loaded with a lot of posts and articles, most of which were my lectures in my night class. I also placed some adsense unit and it did make some little earnings then.
One day, the site suddenly became too slow to load. I have found out that it was the MySQL database service which was getting unavailable that time. When the database service was restored, the blogsite loaded well for some times but also became very slow most of the time. It continued to be this way for around 3 days and then it totally became a blank page whenever the browser is done loading it. I was thinking then that the database service is the cause of the problem because I am sure that I have not performed any configuration or installation of plugins in the blogsite.
I reached the point where I actually removed my blogsite and reinstall another wordpress blogsite (both the current version I am using then and also with the latest stable release). I have also removed and created database because of this. But to no success, the problem is still the same. I have wasted a lot of time and opportunity because of what happened.
This wordpress tragedy made me end up with this new blogsite http://www.blogsite.psvphil.com, something which was made from a css template and slowly I am converting it into a full-pledged blogsite with Access database as its backend. As I enjoy creating websites with css templates and asp.net master pages, I also changed psvphil.com into something new. http://www.psvphil.com
Out of the problem I encountered, came something new worth working with as a web developer.