i'm an expert when it comes to finding new dumb questions to ask. we're running an older version of optigold ISP (though that should be irrelevant to this query). we have the webserver half down at our colo, but due to various reasons i won't go into, we have to host the db server elsewhere, over a link that has a tendency occasionally to lose connectivity. when that happens of course, the webserver can't talk to the db server, and it closes the scripts. is there any way (perhaps a third party script?) to have the webserver automatically attempt to reconnect every XX seconds if the link is broken? for the record we're running 3.1.4.
I've not seen anything to do it, although I suppose you could make a script to monitor the "health" and reopen it if necessary.