My web sites are on a Plesk controlled server at GoDaddy and they access MySQL databases. Every few days I get word that my web sites are down and nobody can access my sites and I have found that it is because the databases cannot be reached. There are no error messages, the user simply gets a wait cursor that is never resolved. To repair this, I have to manually log into my GoDaddy / Plesk account and Recycle the Application Pool, then everything works again. I am using ASP .NET to access the MySQL Databases. I would like to find out why this is happening and or figure out a way to detect the need to Recycle the Application Pool and an automated method of doing so. Any ideas would be much appreciated.