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Another outage today. Worse this time, as all sites on the server were inaccessible. I'm sure my few customers are very pleased they hosted with me!
I don't know exactly what was wrong. But I strongly suspect this was the same MySQL problem. Somewhere there is a script that is (or scripts that are) connecting the MySQL, but then not releasing the connection when they are done. And with enough requests this eventually results in too many connections to the database.
Probably those requests would time out eventually and everything would start working on it's own, but rebooting the server made this happen right away.
Hopefully no one was mid post when this happened.
I am going to try to get to the bottom of this. I will keep you all posted.
Quick database outage. Looks like the same thing that happened a week or so ago. Not a big deal (just have to restart the mysql demon,) but obviously annoying. I'm trying to figure out if there is something more fundamental that is breaking down. I'm thinking possibly this has to do with running low on disk space.
The site was down for a while today. I'm not sure exactly how long. The server was fine, but the database was returning a "too many connections" error which was almost certainly not the result of actually having too many connections. Sorry for the outage.