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The bulletin boards, calendars , and photo galleries we use in your web site all use a database to store the information.

If you try to access your bulletin board or calendar or photo gallery, you occasionally might see an error that looks similar to this:

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Warning: mysql_connect(): Too many connections in /home/(YourUserName)/docs/phpBB2/db/mysql4.php on line 48

Warning: mysql_error(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/(YourUserName)/docs/phpBB2/db/mysql4.php on line 330

Warning: mysql_errno(): supplied argument is not a valid MySQL-Link resource in /home/(YourUserName)/docs/phpBB2/db/mysql4.php on line 331

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Or you might see an error like this:

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phpBB : Critical Error

Could not connect to the database

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Or you might see BOTH errors!

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There is nothing wrong with your bulletin board (or photo gallery or calendar), and none of the data or information has been lost. Instead, the web server that has the database is just very busy.

Three of the most common reasons (there are many other reasons) for a very busy server are:

• One of the other web sites hosted on the same server is receiving a lot of visitors or is transferring a lot of data (perhaps music or video downloads, or site updating in progress, etc.),
• the server, or one of the web sites hosted on the server, is under some form of Internet attack (Denial of Service, or DoS)
• there is a spammer's "robot" program that is attempting to register hundreds of users in a forum (or photo gallery or calendar) located on that server. In one extreme case at one forum a robot program registered about 12,000 users in just under 4 hours, and in another case a robot program posted about 50,000 spam posts over a two day period.

Due to the high load on the server, web sites co-located on the server might also have some delays in responding, or have slow downloads, or even be temporarily inaccessible.

Unfortunately, the only "cure" is to wait for the “load” on the server to lessen (the DoS attack ends or for the robot to stop or for the traffic at the other web sites to lessen). Try to access the forum or photo gallery or calendar again after a few hours. If the condition persists after a day, please contact me.

revised: March 22, 2007

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