[snip] I have a site that is getting 30K+ traffic daily and it is smashing mySQL - any ideas on what to do to make the mysql connections more efficient, or anything in general. No bandwidth issue here, just the server getting killed. [/snip] Without seeing any code or table information my bet would be that none of your tables are indexed properly. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php