[Derek Zeanah]

We've got the database and web services sitting on two different servers. I had "persistent connections" enabled, which should have been keeping things speedy. But as a result sometimes we'd error out that we were getting too many connections to the database.

Rather then upping the number of allowed connections from something obscene to something really obscene, I turned off persistent connections.

If you see a noticeable drop in performance, please let me know and I'll switch it back.