# Intermittent Application Error on shared hosting w/ FCGI

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermittent-application-error-on-shared-hosting-w-fcgi/170288>\
**Category:** Radiant CMS\
**Created:** [June 15, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermittent-application-error-on-shared-hosting-w-fcgi/170288 "2009-06-15T16:05:15Z")\
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**Author:** ![jbhruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@jbhruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jbhruby)\
**Post date:** [June 15, 2009, 4:05pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermittent-application-error-on-shared-hosting-w-fcgi/170288/1 "2009-06-15T16:05:15Z")

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I’ve managed to get Radiant running for a client on a shared hosting  
server, and it works grand. The client likes the interface and is  
comfortable using textile etc so that’s great. The only problem is that  
every once in a while it throws an Application Error (Rails Application  
did not start properly). This happens every 20 or so page refreshes and  
appears to happen more often in the admin section.

This can be particularly annoying when uploading assets using  
paperclipped as you can end up waiting several minutes just to get this  
error.

Anyways, I’d really like to clear this up. I can’t understand why the  
application wouldn’t start properly when it’s already running! Or why  
the error would occur sometimes and not others.

Perhaps because it’s a shared server it’s to do with other users  
bursting out of their CPU usage and it not being there to handle the  
request?

Any help would be seriously appreciated! Thanks,

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**Author:** ![jbhruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/439d5e/32.png) [@jbhruby](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/jbhruby)\
**Post date:** [June 18, 2009, 8:08pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/intermittent-application-error-on-shared-hosting-w-fcgi/170288/2 "2009-06-18T20:08:43Z")

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Jon H. wrote:

> I’ve managed to get Radiant running for a client on a shared hosting  
> server, and it works grand. The client likes the interface and is  
> comfortable using textile etc so that’s great. The only problem is that  
> every once in a while it throws an Application Error (Rails Application  
> did not start properly). This happens every 20 or so page refreshes and  
> appears to happen more often in the admin section.

You are probably running out of memory (RAM) on the server. If you have  
a private server, you can increase your available RAM to fix the error.