Why should it be a complete sentence?

A) It has a period at the end.

B) I said I didn't care (and wrote it in teeny text), because

C) I write incomplete sentences all the time on purpose. Like this one.

"All the news that's fit to print" isn't a complete sentence either.

Nor is it often truthful on that publication's part.

Kidding aside, does the NYT put a period after it?

No, it does not.

Really slow connections today.

Is it just me, or is it impossible to get on this site today?

I actually got a "Page Suspended" from fangeek the first time I tried today. I just finished registering at Peoplesforum.

Yeah, do we know what was the up?

I have had no trouble getting in, but at times it has been very slow.

Since that blip where we were offline completely, it's been running quite speedily for me. Faster than it's been all day.

Yeah, do we know what was the up?

We're looking into what the deal was with the suspended page right now. Kristen or I will provide a report once we've learned more. I apologize for the difficulties you guys may have experienced today, and I thank you for not hunting one or both of us down. ... Unless you've already sent out the lynching parties, in which case, I should probably be hunting for a hidey-space?

As I'm sure you noticed, we had a bit of an outage this morning. Some of you may have even seen a suspended page. The short version is that y'all talk too much. The long version is...well, a little longer.

This morning, Monique and I received an email from IH in which they informed us that this site was starting to outgrow a shared hosting environment and that it was bogging down the server. There's a possibility that on the newer, faster server, it won't be such an issue but we were urged to consider dedicated hosting.

As I'm reading the email, the site goes down.

I respond, a little pissed and very perplexed, given the number of conversations we had with them prior to moving in. I ask for some clarification.

IH informs me that, while they did not anticipate any problems with the site, they simply weren't expecting "over 200 concurrent mysql connections at the same time". They had no way of predicting that. They informed us that we are the reason the server has been so slow of late. They also suggested that we modify our code, as they believe the script we're using is the problem.

My response to this is that, while I will discuss it with you [Buffistas], I'm a little confused as to why I'm just hearing about this now. Both Monique and I have had conversations with them in the past few weeks about the slowness and other issues and, at no time, did they tell us it was due to our usage. Yadda yadda yadda. More stuff that really is irrelevant to the issue at hand.

IH mentions that they think if we "optimize the database queries" that will help a lot. It isn't our bandwidth usage that is the issue, it's our resource usage.

So here's the issue. As I have already recommended to ita, we should try and optimize the queries, if possible. Finding other ways to use fewer resources would also be good. The new server may also buy us some time.

But the bottom line is that if we are truly using "200 concurrent mysql connections at the same time" on a Friday morning in August, I don't think there's a shared hosting environment in all the world that's going to be able to host us for very long come the fall. I really am starting to believe that this board needs a dedicated server to exist peacefully on the net.

"200 concurrent mysql connections at the same time"

I find it hard to believe that there are 200 users on at the same time, but maybe I underestimate the number of lurkers. Also, I don't know anything about what constitutes a mysql connection. Is the code opening multiple connections for one user before closing any of them? Can anyone explain the concept in English?