vBulletin MYSQL issues :(
 

Hello everyone, I am currently experiencing a lot of mysql errors on my vbulletin forum. Ever since I installed vbulletin I have been receiving:

""MySQL Error : MySQL server has gone away""

errors about once or twice a day, but it's been pretty consistent over the last 4 months. I don't know how bad that error is but i'm sure it's not great to be receiving it and I would be better off not having that error at all. Is there a way to fix that error?

Also the big one that is really worrying me, is over the last 3/4 days I have been receiving the following error: ""Database error in vBulletin :

mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: User my_database already has more than 'max_user_connections' active connections /home/sitehidden/public_html/forums/includes/class_core.php on line 311 MySQL Error : Error Number : Request Date : Sunday, August 30th 2009 @ 09:26:09 PM Error Date : Sunday, August 30th 2009 @ 09:27:07 PM Script : http://sitehidden.com/forums/showthr...10343&posted=1 Referrer : IP Address : ip hidden Username : Classname : vB_Database MySQL Version : ""

Followed by a few of these:

""Database error in vBulletin : mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/lib/mysql/mysql.sock' (11) /home/sitehidden/public_html/forums/includes/class_core.php on line 311 MySQL Error : Error Number : Request Date : Sunday, August 30th 2009 @ 09:28:09 PM Error Date : Sunday, August 30th 2009 @ 09:28:16 PM Script : http://www.sitehidden.com/forums/sea...searchid=28485 Referrer : IP Address : ip hidden Username : Classname : vB_Database MySQL Version : ""

And then during this time I cannot access the site, it seems to crash or be down. Now I don't know what's causing these but is it something on my end?

Hopefully i'm not crashing the server as it's on shared hosting, but more importantly I need my site to be up as much as possible as it's kind of embarrassing and bad for the community.

Any help is greatly appreciated, I have opened a ticket with my provider hopefully they can shed some light on this and it isn't something sinister.