Holy Grail Games might not need a bigger server after all. Not yet that is. Today I sent an new ticket to hostgator regarding the server issue, and this time a new guy responded. (last time the support said that I needed to upgrade the server)

This time the support really knew what he was talking about, and apparently when HGG was running on the old GS script it set alot of persistent connections in mysql. Some of the connections have been running for several millions of seconds. And when these stacked up it just got worse and worse. Anyway, the support deleted the bad stuff, and reset the database, and now everything looks fine. The site hasent been down for several hours, and it handles 40+ people online at the same time just fine. Before it meant trouble if 20+ people visited.

So, HGG will stay on this server for now, and we’ll see if I need a server upgrade with time. Now I need to get the new URLs indexed in google. Thats a pain.

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