Hello I have a phpbb forum on my website, quite active: about 90 posts/day and >10000 total posts. I was just welcomed by the following message on the blank screen: Could anyone please shed some light on why it happened? Too many users online? Is this a reason for crashing? Is it a server-side problem? Should I change hosts? (my webhost is Site5) Another question: how often should I backup the forum MySQL database if I am to be a good webmaster? Please advise. Thank you!!!
Like too many users according to first line. I have a site that once in a while, just too many people connected at one time. Go to cpanel, mysql and click repair. Usually that resets everything and all is okay until again, too many users.
Ask your webhost what the maximum number of connections is and ask them to increase it if possible. Also make sure your scripts are managing the connections correctly and closing them using mysql_close when they are no longer needed.