Title: Database connection lost
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Database connection lost

 *  [idienstler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idienstler/)
 * (@idienstler)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-lost/)
 * Hi,
 * when I run the plugin on a blog with > 6000 Blogposts it seems to kill the database
   connection from time to time.
 * Is it possible to let the plugin just check 1 or 2 links every hour?
 * Regards
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/broken-link-checker/)

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 *  [christopherross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christopherross/)
 * (@christopherross)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-lost/#post-4127881)
 * Broken Link checker is a great tool but it’s memory hungry.
 * From WPEngine ( [http://support.wpengine.com/disallowed-plugins/](http://support.wpengine.com/disallowed-plugins/)):
 * > Broken Link Checker Alternatives
   > If you used the Broken Link Checker plugin and wish we hadn’t banned it, we
   > recommend that you use one of the following tools to check your site for broken
   > links:
   > It’s not a plugin, and won’t make the server unhappy: [http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/](http://www.brokenlinkcheck.com/).
   > An even better solution to using a website to scan for broken links would be
   > an application that you install on your computer:
   > Broken Link Check — Online, limited to 3000 pages.
   >  Xenu Link Sleuth — Windows
   > only. Integrity — Macintosh only.
 *  Thread Starter [idienstler](https://wordpress.org/support/users/idienstler/)
 * (@idienstler)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-lost/#post-4128025)
 * Thank you very much
 *  [polins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/polins/)
 * (@polins)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-lost/#post-4128200)
 * On a 12,000-page site running on a Hostgator Business Plan I see this occasionally.
   More recently, HG has shut down all my sites for a period of one hour (not sure
   if this preventive or punitive). I have had no problems since I deactivated the
   BLC plugin.
 * Perhaps there is a way to throttle back the load that the plugin imposes on the
   server?

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-connection-lost/#post-4128200)
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