I think im gonna request my account be moved to computing host server, as I do pay for my hosting, I really should have swaped servers when he asked :|. I've had enough of MySQL downtimes often caused by other users bad code overloading the server.

How often and how long do Mysql outages usually take?

MySQL is down again. It is the second time it is down in a week. I wonder what is causing the downtown time. Is there any irresponsible member abusing the MySQL database?

MySQL downtime is sometimes caused by upgrades to the server, MySQL version, PHP version etc, although these usually last only a few minutes and are perfectly acceptable. Unfortunately most of the outages here are by people writing scripts to send spam emails or whatever that seriously overload the server and then cause it to crash. People take advantage of this great free service and wreck it for everyone else There's very little that the admins can do to stop these people before they start their script, simply becuase they don't know they'll do it. Rarely it can also be a mistake in a script, but this is very unlikely and people often know what they are doing.

Oddly, the Status Page shows MySQL as being fully working on the Gamma server. This probably means it was a script being run that overloaded the server.

ok its back up now
haha while u guys were debating what happened I went to sleep and then found when I woke up it was fine

see.

patience is required.