I have a site that some days runs well and others like crap Trying to work out the performance issues with it Host has forced me to VPS thats fine What the VPS solution has done is made me look harder at the issue Is it ok to have mutiple open connections to the db rather than just one? I have the classifeds+sep diretory+ million pixel+ support+ chat so you see my point? better to get the additional scripts to use a separate db right? Anyone give me some good advice?