By CrowChick on

Howdy!

My Drupal 4.6.5-based site, MangaPunk.com, has been running for several years with only some minor hitches with database corruption. Suuuuuddenly, for no reason I can foresee, I started getting this message out of the blue: unable to select database

Why might this have occurred? Any ideas? Anybody?

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jscoble commented

I checked the source for the page displayed on your website and received the following:


unable to select database

You might want to check with your provider.

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jscoble commented

I'll try to post the page source again with the html stripped out or prepended with _:

HEAD:
_type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" id="webdeveloper-disable-all-styles" _href="chrome://webdeveloper/content/stylesheets/empty.css">

html body:
unable to select database

Check with your provider. To get the exact source, do a display source on that page.

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CrowChick commented

The problem was solved, thanks for your replies! At first my server provider said the problem was on my end, hence I came here. But, after I asked them if any changes had been made to the MySQL or PHP, they said I had maxed out my SQL connections for the day, kicking in their throttle mechanism. They took the throttle off, and the problem is resolved. Thanks!

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jscoble commented

Is your subcultureofone site also on the same hosting plan? I noticed it was down earlier.

You may want to look into upgrading your plan or finding a new hosting company if you continue to encounter this problem, especially since you mention having your database corrupted occasionally. Saying you maxed out your SQL connections for the day were maxed out sounds odd, usually its a max query limit or something like that for databases. Max connections usually applies to concurrent connections. Either way, you might want to find out what kind of limits will cause them to pull the plug on your site, e.g. memory usage, sql usage, cpu usage etc.

btw, nice sites. Unfortunately I encountered some errors on http://www.subcultureofone.com/gallery/