{"id":280,"date":"2011-10-28T15:17:34","date_gmt":"2011-10-28T15:17:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/2011\/10\/28\/explaining-the-maxuserconnections-error\/"},"modified":"2021-11-05T16:43:30","modified_gmt":"2021-11-05T20:43:30","slug":"explaining-the-maxuserconnections-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inmotionhosting.com\/support\/website\/error-numbers\/explaining-the-maxuserconnections-error\/","title":{"rendered":"Explaining the Max_User_Connections Error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On our servers the default max simultaneaous connections for MySQL is set to 20. This typically, is not an issue since most MYSQL connections only last a fraction of a second and having 20 in the same fraction of a second is rare. However, there are other situations that may cause this:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Your programming code which is opening the database connection is not closing the connection. 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