Andrija Vučinić

On `Version 95.0.4638.69 (Official Build) (x86_64)`, here's a screencap:  > I hit reload and it gives the same number of requests. Do you have any proxies or strange networking...

Yep, still reproducible. Check my comment up there. - disable cache - load it once - enable cache - just F5 in the middle of the animation

This is super nice. Would you mind revisiting and checking if they run with latest WP/PHP 7.x. I'd love to build on this work.

Iliya had a good observation. If we get `HYPERDB_SERVER_GONE_ERROR`, we shouldn't try to ping, but go straight to `disconnect()`: https://github.com/Automattic/HyperDB/blob/2b329ab8496071423cb910dda5531164369f7b14/db.php#L1402-L1407 And I think with that, and some testing it's good...