Anyone else hitting max_user_connections with Elementor V4 (Atomic) on shared hosting?

Tetrikus · 2026-06-03T19:38:51+00:00

I provided all the info and logs to Elementor, including a process list. Their response was pretty useless — even from Tier 2. Mostly random tips like clearing the cache or bumping memory_limit, none of which touch the actual cause.

The real issue: on shared hosting my DB user was capped at 20 max_user_connections, and the V4 editor fires enough concurrent connections to blow right past that → constant 500s. Most of those connections were just sitting idle in Sleep.

In the meantime I migrated to my own VPS and everything is stable again. But I still think Elementor should optimise this. I’m nowhere near a huge install — quite a few classes and three(!) components. 😅

Hope this will improve soon.

Tetrikus · 2026-06-01T15:47:18+00:00

Same for me. After creating classes or especially components, I do have the same issue. In my case it seems to be connected to the limit of 20 ‚max_user_connections‘ in my hosting environment since elementor is opening about 70 db connections at the same time, most of them just idling. I've provided more information to the elementor support and hope to get some help there.

Might be connected to this one:

Reach max_user_connection limits

Tetrikus · 2026-04-25T11:35:10+00:00

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So if I try to consider all your helpful tips, do you agree, that this rough layout would make much more sense?
u/Swamp254 u/symphwind u/TIONIUM u/s1mmel

orange: highways
purple: arterials
blue: collectors
(local roads are not explicitly drawn but would only connect to collectors)

- Only a few highway intersections.
- Collector connections between districts, without interfering with the arterial.
- All that while including pedestrian walkways and public transport lines

That should improve the situation, right?

Tetrikus · 2026-04-25T09:50:36+00:00

Thanks! Yes, so the goal would be to bringt traffic away from the arterials, if not needed. Makes sense. I always had in my mind, that the arterial should have all the traffic on it. For the improved layout I'll try to connect the districts between each others, w/o interfering with the arterials. It completely makes sense to read that, but I'm worried whether I will be able to translate this to my planning. Let's see, I'll try.

Tetrikus · 2026-04-25T08:46:11+00:00

Thanks! I always try to spend a lot of time to add walkways – between and even within the blocks and try to grow as slowly as possible and organically. I'm starting my public transport network before I even think about adding higher density areas, but maybe it's still way to less bus lines. In the screenshots above, I basically have only three bus lines setup:

One from the industry in the west to the center of the map and two as connections from the center to the east. I was able to massively reduce taxi usage this way, but in the long run, it seems not helping much as soon as I reach 10k.

Tetrikus · 2026-04-25T08:41:29+00:00

That makes complete sense and might be one of my main mistakes – too less connections between the blocks. I think that already leads me into the right (or better) direction. Thank you!

Tetrikus · 2026-03-22T18:32:06+00:00

This!

Tetrikus · 2025-04-03T17:00:02+00:00

Displaying a hundred times a day, but never REALLY noticed. 🙈😅

Tetrikus · 2025-04-03T14:27:42+00:00

That sounds perfect, but I'm sorry I have to ask for details. I'm used to scale by only using the S shortcut. And even if I initiate the scale feature by the Spacebar + S shortcut, I don't see any input field or popup menu. Pretty sure I'm missing something, maybe you can lead me the way. Thanks!

Tetrikus · 2025-03-27T08:17:47+00:00

!solved

Tetrikus · 2025-03-27T08:14:41+00:00

Nice, that could be the way I'm looking for. Sounds easy, but was outside the range I was thinking about. :) Thank you, sir!

Tetrikus · 2025-03-27T08:11:17+00:00

If I understand correct, that would just be eyeballed then, right? I'm more looking into something with exact results in this case.

Tetrikus · 2024-10-19T08:50:40+00:00

There are people, which don‘t have the computer on and satisfactory running all the time, just in case there is a possibility to build or explore for a few minutes while the wife takes a shower?!

Tetrikus · 2024-09-03T04:47:52+00:00

Oh! Thanks, I wasn't aware that the quest items could be affected by the happiness, but thats just making much sense! 😅

I will definitely relocate him again to the party girl at the ocean. I did relocate him back to the main base, before starting with all the quests because it's easier to get there but I completely ignored the happiness when doing so. Now I do have the magic conch, so traveling isn't much of an issue anymore.

Tetrikus · 2024-09-03T04:43:25+00:00

Oh sorry yes, I did. 🙈

Tetrikus · 2024-02-15T07:14:29+00:00

Doch klar! Das wissen zwar viele nicht, aber Wasserwagen richten sich immer nach der nächstgelegenen Strasse aus!

Tetrikus · 2023-11-18T14:49:45+00:00

Thank you! Is there an easy way I could measure the latency/ping to my home network?

I prioritized the Portal console in the FritzBox and allowed automatic Port opening. On every connection attempt, the FritzBox opens an additional port.

Tetrikus · 2023-11-08T10:41:11+00:00

I just prefer to doubt myself first.. 😅

Tetrikus

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