nm that didn&#39;t fix it<div><br></div><div>talking out loud ...</div><div><br></div><div>getting lots of page not found errors in the log, can&#39;t believe that would be enough to kill it.  maybe it&#39;s getting indexed?</div>

<div><br></div><div>found this:</div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 20px; ">When using Drupal’s “pretty URLs” which uses Apache’s mod_rewrite to, well, make URLs pretty, all requests that the web server does not process (including errors) will go through Drupal. Going through Drupal means a long boot-strapping process to initialize Drupal and load all its modules, and at least one database request to find out a <span class="caps" style="font-size: 0.9em; ">URL</span> does not exist and to return an error 404. Too many requests for a non-existent file can basically become a<acronym title="denial of service">DoS</acronym> attack.</span></div>

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<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 2:43 PM, Ryan LeTulle <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bayousoft@gmail.com">bayousoft@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">

I increased the max mysql connections to 200 &amp; restarted mysql but was still getting the site offline page almost immediately after.<div><br></div><div>Settings &gt; performance &gt; caching mode was set to disabled.  I set it to normal.  Can this setting cause a site offline error?  So far it appears to have stopped and the pages seem snappier (which I would expect).</div>


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<br><br></div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jan 6, 2011 at 1:18 PM, Ryan Letulle <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:bayousoft@gmail.com" target="_blank">bayousoft@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>

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<div bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div>Thx<br><br>Ryan<div><span><br>
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</div><div><div></div><div><div><br>On Jan 6, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Jamie Holly &lt;<a href="mailto:hovercrafter@earthlink.net" target="_blank">hovercrafter@earthlink.net</a>&gt; wrote:<br><br></div><div></div><blockquote type="cite">


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    Most of the time it&#39;s PHP unable to connect to the database. Check
    your PHP error logs and see if it gives you a hint.<br>
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      <div>Training users on a new Drupal site today and getting lots of
        site offline errors.  Can someone tell me what triggers this?
         PHP memory setting?</div>
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