Title: Multiple database users
Last modified: August 20, 2016

---

# Multiple database users

 *  [SK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sooskriszta/)
 * (@sooskriszta)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-database-users/)
 * My host throttles simultaneous database connections by the same database user(
   name).
 * Can I set up WordPress to use multiple database user(name)s?

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

 *  [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * (@tim-s)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-database-users/#post-2501055)
 * Database connections are opened and closed pretty quickly (typically a fraction
   of a second). It’s highly unlikely you’ll have a large number of connections 
   to the database open at one time. Let’s see if I can explain. When a visitor 
   visits a page, WordPress queries the database to get the content to display, 
   once the content is captured the database connection is termminated. Then the
   page is built serverside and displayed in the visitors browser. It’s highly unlikely
   you’d need multiple users, and I’ve never heard of anyone setting up the config
   to do that.
 * Now, you can look at using a caching plugin to store the pages as static on the
   server. This will reduce the load on the server as well as the database queries.
   I hope this helps!
 *  Thread Starter [SK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sooskriszta/)
 * (@sooskriszta)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-database-users/#post-2501057)
 * Thanks Tim! I am using WP Super Cache to cache pages as static, and hopefully
   that takes care of database connections in normal circumstances.
 * However, I am planning to install bbPress and BuddyPress, which more or less 
   breathe dynamic content and are not very conducive to static caching.
 * Further, BuddyPress wipes out entire WordPress cache everytime someone logs in.
 * Finally, since the last update of WordPress, static caching plugins, including
   WP Super Cache, have been having trouble delivering on the promised caching.
 * These are the reasons I am wondering about multiple users…
 *  [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * (@tim-s)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-database-users/#post-2501058)
 * I work for a large hosting company, and it’s rare that I’ve seen a website owner
   have excessive MySQL connections since they only last a fraction of a second.
   However, I’m not aware of any way to have multiple users attached to one database.
   Furthermore, WordPress would have no way to know which user to connect with like
   a load balancing system would.
 * You could do it by setting all the users as variables. Then you’d need a code
   a script to rotate the user based on a sequential loop. That way, the script 
   would change the username and password based on the variable passed to it, as
   the wp-config file is called.
 * This is only theory, and I’ve never found a need to do this or attempt to code
   it. I’d suggest talking to your hosting provider further since this problem seems
   to be isolated.
 *  Thread Starter [SK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sooskriszta/)
 * (@sooskriszta)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-database-users/#post-2501059)
 * I see. Thanks for the advice. I’ll go ahead and install bbPress and BuddyPress
   and see what happens…based on what you have told me, hopefully it won’t crash
   my website 🙂
 *  [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * (@tim-s)
 * [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-database-users/#post-2501152)
 * Your host should be monitoring the connections and notify you if there’s an issue
   with using too much resources. Most hosts don’t mind doing this, since typically
   this means you’ll need to upgrade the kind of hosting package you’re using. I
   hope this helps!

Viewing 5 replies - 1 through 5 (of 5 total)

The topic ‘Multiple database users’ is closed to new replies.

## Tags

 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [performance](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/performance/)
 * [speed](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/speed/)
 * [timeout](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/timeout/)
 * [users](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/users/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tim S](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tim-s/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/multiple-database-users/#post-2501152)
 * Status: not resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics