If you're a frequent visitor, you've probably noticed the occasional MySQL "Too many connections" error cropping up on the site.

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To be fair, it's more noticeable to users of the forum, where people tend to lurk around, and inevitably see the site failing.
I've emailed host-support a number of times about this, and the general consensus is that the MySQL is being jammed by one of the many other sites hosted on the Shared Hosting server.

Each time it's happened, I've sent them whatever details I can muster, as well as sitting, fingers crossed, in the hopes that they can figure it all out.

It's now happened about 10 times, and is becoming more and more frequent.
It's already happened 3 times this year, and we're only up to week 3.
So.. Pretty much a weekly occurrence, and each time the site will be down for about an hour at a time, or in one case, about 6 hours. (Although, to be fair, that was about 2am, just after New Years!)

I think I've given Zen more than enough chances to sort this out, so it's time to try out a different host.
Over the coming days, I'll be shifting things over to a new host (still undecided) and will be testing that things aren't broken there, too.

It is, of course, entirely possible that these issues are completely my own damn fault. But until I see proof of that, I'm willing to bet that my tiny little site is running as smoothly, and as stable as it possibly can.

Anyhoo, that'll be this week's main task.

.. Really could've done without all this!!!