What should we be expecting from a server management service when we buy an optimization job?
I was promised great optimization for 2 servers individually by a certain server company. So, I paid up and went through with it. There were some load issues I wanted to take care of, which I would normally try to troubleshoot myself.
Well, the optimization is apparently complete. Clients are complaining about mysql errors, I went to investigate and the my.cnf wait_timeout is set too low for the scripts running. I also notice that the my.cnf for both servers are exactly the same, despite the fact that the two servers are completely different specifications.
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