Plug website down

[Lisa Kachold]

On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 8:53 AM, Jordan Aberle <jordan.aberle at gmail.com>wrote:

> I have tried to visit the website last night as well as this morning but
> there seems to be a database problem.  It is saying 'mysql: too many
> connections' but I tried accessing the website early this morning - I doubt
> it was getting bombarded by millions of plug members. :)
>
> Any eta?
>
> Thanks,
> Jordan
>
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Exact Error is:

Failure to connect to your MySQL database server. MySQL reports the
following message: *Too many connections*.

   - Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
   - Are you sure that you have typed the correct database hostname?
   - Are you sure that the database server is running?

For more help, see the Installation and upgrading
handbook<http://drupal.org/node/258>.
If you are unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your
hosting provider.

I doubt that this was due to Hans upgrading it!

There were also unauthorized ssh access from Russia; I recommended the
server be rebuilt, after full forensics on the logs and server and replacing
the old debian insecure SSL.   I rebuilt an old 1 U server that they had for
the purposes of replacing the web server/installation, but the ball was
dropped somewhere with a human bandwidth issue with Hans.

That CMS had a great many Drupal security updates that I recommended we
update, but Hans did not authorize the work then, wanting to keep legacy
functions in some of the tools that were obsolete in 6.0.  The Drupal
version was an upgraded 4 with a core patch and many modules that would not
be compatible.  A complete plan was created, and I installed the replacement
Drupal in another directory running concurrently on another port 81.  The
balll was dropped on that cut-over as well, because Hans didn't want to lose
all those years of content.

I often found the site with the databases curiously rolled back to old edits
and reported those errors.

I am not on the disaster recovery team; and my bandwidth is limited
(especially after already doing all this work/engineering),  but if you need
any help give me a call.

It might just be a database overrun issue with the repeat date functions
(which were dropped with that code module due to thrashing like this).  If
that's so, one simply has to roll back to the last dump and it should
continue to run until next time.  I don't think anything but the best, most
state of art Drupal installation should be in place for a Linux group, but
that's just me.

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