How do you know his database server is on the other end of a 10 Mbit link? What if the datbase and the web server are on the same box and the outside link is doing just fine but his db is simply overloaded?
I don't think you can take it as given that the network is the problem when you see an 'error establishing a database connection'. I'd start with looking at the database.
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"Error establishing a database connection"
10 Mbit/s doesn't cut it apparantly.
How do you know his database server is on the other end of a 10 Mbit link? What if the datbase and the web server are on the same box and the outside link is doing just fine but his db is simply overloaded?
I don't think you can take it as given that the network is the problem when you see an 'error establishing a database connection'. I'd start with looking at the database.
woosh. He was clearly joking.
On another note... this is clearly MySQL. I recall this error from the 1990s
I assumed it was a joke.