Bisam Posted November 1, 2005 Posted November 1, 2005 Hi all, I have searched for answers, but not found any yet: my shop and html site which feeds it are running together on the same server, but at what looks like certain times of the day, namely when most of the U.S. is awake, the shop grinds to a serious halt, but the html still runs more or less fine. The server is in the US and the shop is not finished or open to the public yet, so there is hardly any traffic and during the day from here in Europe, I have very few problems. The server also throws up a mysql_connect warning - too many users - Unable to connect to database server on occasions. I have spoken with the server administators and they say the server is fine and point out that the html area runs well, so it can only be the shop. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing such problems. As I say, 12 out of 24 hours, the shop runs fine. Any ideas gratefully recieved.
wheeloftime Posted November 1, 2005 Posted November 1, 2005 Hi all, I have searched for answers, but not found any yet: my shop and html site which feeds it are running together on the same server, but at what looks like certain times of the day, namely when most of the U.S. is awake, the shop grinds to a serious halt, but the html still runs more or less fine. The server is in the US and the shop is not finished or open to the public yet, so there is hardly any traffic and during the day from here in Europe, I have very few problems. The server also throws up a mysql_connect warning - too many users - Unable to connect to database server on occasions. I have spoken with the server administators and they say the server is fine and point out that the html area runs well, so it can only be the shop. Does anyone have any idea what may be causing such problems. As I say, 12 out of 24 hours, the shop runs fine. Any ideas gratefully recieved. I am pretty sure the mySQL database server is the bottleneck which is a problem for your host. Probably there are too many other databases served on that server and as it is situated in the US it will of course experience the heaviest load during US prime times. Your HTML area doesn't have to access this server so you won't experience serious slow downs with that in contrary to your osC shop.
Bisam Posted November 1, 2005 Author Posted November 1, 2005 Thank you for this. I was assuming something similar, but what can one ask the host to do? Is the solution to move to another host (where the same problem may exist!) or can this be worked around? I am a relative newbie on this.
wheeloftime Posted November 1, 2005 Posted November 1, 2005 Thank you for this. I was assuming something similar, but what can one ask the host to do? Is the solution to move to another host (where the same problem may exist!) or can this be worked around? I am a relative newbie on this. You could rent a dedicated server for yourself but that would cost a lot more. There is some others here who are into the hosting business and they could surely give you some more and better advise to this but you could contact your host and tell them where the problem lies and you will move to another if they don't solve it. Finding a good and reliable host can be difficult but maybe there are sites, I can't imagine they are not there, where you can read about different hosting companies with user feedback which give some more insight how a hosting company performs. That's how I 'found' mine and so far I am not dissapointed. Besides a good looking shop a reliable host is almost just as important if you want to look professional.
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