(01-30-2024, 08:58 AM)Tas_mania Wrote: SQL ERROR [ mysql4 ] Too many connections [1040]
This looks like the error from a ddos attack. I hope it's not.
I don't think, it might be just too many connections open in mysql, by default it's set to 100, I don't know their mysql config, though
It might be also linked to very recently Wallace's action as he did pass the number of post per page to 20 (it was 10 before) as well as the front page.
The lack of disk space could also throw this error, as it could make mysql to wait before a query can finish, thus the number of pending user connections will increase until it reaches the limit
Bots, freaking badly made bots with hundreds connections at a time can do that also (not an attack, but some bad SEO bots/whatnot which never read the robots.txt) and because of the new "20 posts per page" they did "discovered" new posts, thus they all woke up and re-scan/fetch the website
A surge in popularity is also to consider
Patrice