I’m having problems with a site I built where at certain times of the day the site is getting hit with a fairly high load. When that happens, the site either functions quickly or doesn’t function at all and just returns an error saying “Site Error: Unable to Load Site Preferences; No Preferences Found”. It seems like it is running out of database connections perhaps, but instead of just slowing down and still functioning it either works fast for a request or the request just doesn’t work at all.
Does anyone have any advice for how I can fix this? I’d rather the site slow down a little and still function rather than just have intermittent requests not work. For what it’s worth, I have turned on caching where I can and its working a lot better than it did before that…I just need to get it 100%.