POP QUIZ!! What do you do?
 

You have a single hosting account, and about 15 (small but active) domains running on that account.
You work your ass off all dy making adjustments to your trade script, to build up your traffic.
Just when you relax a little, and go out for a bite. Your SQL server decides to go to sleep. You come home to one long ass page loaded with the following message: "Warning: MySQL Connection Failed: ..."

15 domains, all under the same account, (when one crashes, they all crash).
Your traffic is dying rapidly, surfers are fleeing your site. Your host tells you (over the phone) "just fill out a tech support form and we'll get to it"

What do you do?

You have no idea when the SQL will be back up.
Do you 404 all of your main pages, and hope your trades maintain for a while?
Do you redirect all traffic to a sponsor, and risk losing the trades?

WHAT DO YOU DO?

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Put in an order for a dedicated box...

Find a company who'll gove me a dedicated box within 24 hours and start reading about MqSQL

Redshoe contact me dude..

agreed, get yerself a dedicated server and learned yerself sum UNIX administration

I hate mysql.......:2 cents:

what is there to hate on mysql? It ROCKS

Shoe you obviously have a a louzy ISP. Normally all processes
running on a machine should be monitored. Usually when stuff
goes down 98% is due to users who fuck something up...
Offcourse Mysql has it's limits but when used properly it's quite
hard to get to those limits...by that time you order a new box
with a big fucking smile on your face.

Poor formulated queries and no indexing of tables is the number
1 reason for people to think that mysql sucks....again in 99%
of those cases the dude who wrote the script just sucks.

Get a dedicated box have software like Bigbrother monitor your
machine....poll apache and mysql with simple shell scripts or by
bigbrother and execute a deamon restart when noticed that
they don't answer.... it's really not that hard broh this kind of
downtime you describe is absolutely not necesary

DynaMite :thumbsup