thats problem with netowrk stuff, when I connect there using socket or loopback (localhost) it connects without any problem... Allright, I see (also saw you post on percona) Problem looks indeed to lie in the network, I assume you have raised the fs-max on db1.opensubtitles.org to allow more open f...

Looks like you're overloading your mySQL server/are out of connections (even when it's set to 3072...) Have you tried looking in the slow_query_log (if enabled, else enable it for a while) to see if there might be some obvious indexes to create to gain some speed ? See your setting for slow_query_lo...

I think major redesign is needed rather then buying new servers... While this seems to be true to some extent, reading back on eduo's post the problem seems to be in the sheer volume of requests that simply kills the servers. Some stats that have been mentioned around: -Half a million daily subtitl...

I heard about S3. For sure I can give a try, problem is with content, they don't allow (I dont have to read their policies) copyrighted stuff... What volume of traffic are we talking about ? Given that you currently ARE paying already, there are more options to distribute the content via CDNs, for ...