Like phil said, I can't say any more on this other than what I'm guessing. However, I did start a thread on this subject in the mod forum back at the beginning of October. No one ever replied. But I do bring it back to life every once in a while just to find out if anyone will answer. I suggested a nicer error message so it's not confusing as to why it's happening.
But it seems to happen at 3:15-3:30 AM CST. I think they chose that time because there is less traffic, regardless of what Phil says. Of course there is the rest of the world running on different times, but the fact is, at 3:10 AM CST, there is a lot less traffic around here. Usually it's less than 10, closer to 5. That's a big difference from the times when there's 100 or even 50 on.
Why does it happen? It's clear that the MySQL database is purposely taken offline via a script most likely for the purpose of backup. You're not supposed to backup a MySQL database if it's being written to at the same time, so to avoid that it's just taken down.
And server time is EST. I just posted the times relative to myself.
But it seems to happen at 3:15-3:30 AM CST. I think they chose that time because there is less traffic, regardless of what Phil says. Of course there is the rest of the world running on different times, but the fact is, at 3:10 AM CST, there is a lot less traffic around here. Usually it's less than 10, closer to 5. That's a big difference from the times when there's 100 or even 50 on.
Why does it happen? It's clear that the MySQL database is purposely taken offline via a script most likely for the purpose of backup. You're not supposed to backup a MySQL database if it's being written to at the same time, so to avoid that it's just taken down.
And server time is EST. I just posted the times relative to myself.