Curious about active connections

durangod

• January 19, 2026 05:50

Hi,  

My website has no public access (password protected directory) and when i am logged into cpanel but not on the website, i still have 26 connected connections.  Is this normal?

Noone has access to the website, bots will fail also, so unless the server itself has a minimum connection number it uses, something is strange.    PS.   this particular website is on a shared server. 

SHOW STATUS WHERE `variable_name` = 'Threads_running';

This result was 1, assuming that is me logged into phpmyadmin via cpanel

and then

SHOW STATUS WHERE `variable_name` = 'Threads_connected';

This result was 26 and i am wondering why?

How many connections does apache use? Are these sleepers?

 

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  cPRex Jurassic Moderator

  • January 22, 2026 18:12

  Hey hey!  I checked one of my personal accounts which is essentially a test domain with zero traffic, and running that directly in PHPMyAdmin as the user returned 2.  I checked another site running WordPess and that one showed 3.

  So it would seem that 26 connections is a bit high and I don't have a good explanation for that on my end.  

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  durangod

  • January 29, 2026 23:39

  Sorry for the late reply, i did not get the notice.   Ok thanks for the effort, really appreciate the effort.  :)

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