Increasing Performance?

[Chris11987]

A few times, I've gotten a database error, which I assume is caused by too many people being active at one time, and thus running a hell of a lot of SQL queries. Anyway, I have a dedicated server, so what would I need to do in order to increase performance and prevent the site locking down on a database error for a half hour, like it occasionally does?

[SEOvB]

what is the error you're getting and we can confirm or deny your assumptions.

[Marco van Herwaarden]

Start by posting the full error message.
For performence tuning please post in the Server Configuration forum at vB.com.

[Princeton]

- check your mysql logs - some queries could be optimized
- remove bad products (plugins) - some plugins could be optimized / rewritten
- as marco mentioned above ... please post in the Server Configuration forum at vB.com