Database issues

[Marc]

Hello all,

Currently we are experiencing high traffic load which is causing our database server to go on strike. We are looking into it today and will try and fix it ASAP.

Cheers

Marc

[whitt]

How did you go?
Did you work out wheer the traffic was coming from?

[Marc]

Hello whitt,

Not yet.

Cheers

Marc

[donna]

Hi Whitt,

Since beg. of August 08 we have almost doubled our traffic - a good problem to have I suppose now our new server just needs to get on board and be happy delivering to large numbers of connections.

Just a bit of tweaking I suspect.....says the non-techie!

cheers,

Donna

[whitt]

I am involved with another forum elsewhere too and have similar problem. Traffic at some times of day make site nearly stop working.

[Alliee]

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Decryption:-
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