I’m currently working on a php project which I have recently loaded onto the production server.  This server hosts several websites (19); my project is only related to one of these. Since I’ve uploaded this code, their server has crashed repeatedly, after never crashing my development machine.  The owner thinks these crashes are related to my code, but admit that it could also be caused by a large increase in traffic over the last few days.  Now, all I’m able to really know is my code (written in php).  I would nearly guarantee that my code is not causing the problem.  The only way, I would say, that it could be doing it would be an over load of the connections to the MySQL server.  

What I’m looking for is the opinion of someone with more experience administering servers.  Is traffic the most likely cause of the problem?

Thanks,

Josh