Our ISP-served wiki (running MediaWiki 1.3.11) went down due to this
error:
SQL error: User 'our_wiki' has exceeded the 'max_questions' resource
(current value: 50000)
The ISP support assured me we did indeed exceed 50K
questions/connections in one hour, and that this went on for over 12
hours until they increased our limit to 80K questions/hour.
Is this an expected level of database connections for a wiki with 1500
articles and about 400 visitors/day?
Would the number of connection requests be any lower using release
1.4.x?
The ISP suggested we create a second db user and change the code to
switch between them for accesses so that we avoid hitting the limit. I
guess this would mean changing Database.php but it seems very kludgy.
Any thoughts on that would be appreciated.
Michelle