Help me out i can't post anywhere or evem pm anyone. I never received my activation code in my email and i have tried to retreive it mutiple time. Can a mod help me out so i can post. Please.
When the error appears, check the HTML. You'll find a "too many connections" error in a comment at the bottom. What's strange is that this error can appear even when the site isn't receiving a heavy load. When it happens, everything will be working fine for a while, but then it'll go completely dead and not come back for a while.
This leads me to believe that there's something like a "connection leak" going on in the PHP scripts. They aren't releasing connections when they're done with them, or are leaving them open, expecting them to be used again, but another part of the script decides to use a brand new connection instead. There need only be one connection open per page request, but I think there's more, which is a major bug that would cause the forums to crash under much less strain than they ought to. In an ideal world, the forums should never go down completely like they do. This is only a theory. I hope I may be of some help with it.
They should start to show intermittent unreliability once the max number of users has been exceeded, and gradually become more unreliable as the load continues to increase.
And if what MetalMario mentioned doesnt sound convicing...Simply read the other posts before yours. There is nothing we could do about it, except switching to another server.
And, as it has been mentioned on a few occasions, this might happen next month.
I just had trouble logging in from my bookmark of the site. It kept trying to get here through the old theud server. Was the server finally changed without a redirect placed or something? Do I need to update my bookmark now?
This leads me to believe that there's something like a "connection leak" going on in the PHP scripts. They aren't releasing connections when they're done with them, or are leaving them open, expecting them to be used again, but another part of the script decides to use a brand new connection instead. There need only be one connection open per page request, but I think there's more, which is a major bug that would cause the forums to crash under much less strain than they ought to. In an ideal world, the forums should never go down completely like they do. This is only a theory. I hope I may be of some help with it.
What MetalMario is saying sounds sensible to me...perhaps getting a more recent version of VBulletin could fix the problem....I dont know much about PHP but as a novice java programmer i know that sometimes to speed up the program you have to make sure it uses only the resources it needs...If what he is saying is true then PC may not need a new server after all....
This thread's not really meant for questions like this, but anyways:how do i post screen shots in my replys to a thread and in pms
*shrugs* I dunno. Maybe the server is having a really bad monday XDDPC just seriously slowed down for about ten minutes or so. I thought it was just me, but as it turns out, several other people experienced it too.
We aren't going to get another Database error, are we?