Any MySQL experts in the house?

petemc · 14-02-2007, 21:58

For the past few weeks I've been having random outages on my photoblog. Visitors get the "Database connection error" message instead of my site. Annoyingly due to the way Wordpress works I can't even access the admin page when this happens. I've been speaking with my host and they say its because some script isn't closing the connection. They say they allow 10 MySQL connections at the same time. My site isn't *that* popular, surely. Larger forums work well enough. This forum does. My site gets 2,000 unique visitors a day. Thats a lot for me, but surely not a lot for MySQL or a large Wordpress site. I'm currently debating whether to spend £200 and jump ship, but £200 at the moment is a lot just to fix a number. Is 10 a small limit? I've been told their a reseller posing as a proper company.

14-02-2007, 21:58	#1
petemc Moonshine Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Nr Liverpewl Posts: 4,371	Any MySQL experts in the house? For the past few weeks I've been having random outages on my photoblog. Visitors get the "Database connection error" message instead of my site. Annoyingly due to the way Wordpress works I can't even access the admin page when this happens. I've been speaking with my host and they say its because some script isn't closing the connection. They say they allow 10 MySQL connections at the same time. My site isn't that popular, surely. Larger forums work well enough. This forum does. My site gets 2,000 unique visitors a day. Thats a lot for me, but surely not a lot for MySQL or a large Wordpress site. I'm currently debating whether to spend £200 and jump ship, but £200 at the moment is a lot just to fix a number. Is 10 a small limit? I've been told their a reseller posing as a proper company.

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