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Database Error This Whole Day...

Was PC down for any of you guys today? It's been down almost all day for me. It got back up on 12:53Pm in my time.
 
most of these 'errors' are not so much error, but TOO MANY CONNECTIONS at once.. it happens time to time and is a, IMO, design flaw in the software we use. There isn't much we can do about it unless we basically double our current servers and throw a ton of CPU / RAM at it.. which we can't as its WAY too expensive (low $1000's range)

So for now, you'll all need to just deal with it and be patient while we recover the server.
 
Steve, I swear to goodness, the server was going down while only 64 users were connected today.
 
its the auths.. session hashes, whatever you want to call it.. it locks up the database (and apache after a while) since it locks the tables, and each new query has to wait.. and wait.. and wait.. and wait.. and wait.. and wait..

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Hm... now I understand why the server pretty much crashes more than what we thought it would. Yeah, too many connections going at once, I get the idea. It's not just the users that are registered that cause the problem... look how many guests that are not registered come on PC every single day. there's about hundreads of them. So just look at how many guests are online as well, not just the registered users of the forum.

But yeah, every supporter is sure to try and help Steve as much as they can. The supporters donate out of their kindness to help Steve with the dedicated server costs. The answer to getting double of the dedicated servers... lies behind how many supporters can donate to PC. If the number of supporters double out of donating alot of money to keep PC running, then PC will improve and more RAM and CPU will be used, we've just gotta keep helping Steve by donating, trust me... it's the only way to granting PC more dedicated servers. ('-'d)

However... the future is always a mystery. We'll all appriciate the present, of what happens... now! And life is full of many wonderful things! ;D
 
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