diff --git a/cp/app/Lib/Logger.php b/cp/app/Lib/Logger.php
index 2e3c587..849a823 100644
--- a/cp/app/Lib/Logger.php
+++ b/cp/app/Lib/Logger.php
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ use Monolog\ErrorHandler;
 use Monolog\Handler\RotatingFileHandler;
 use Monolog\Handler\StreamHandler;
 use Monolog\Formatter\LineFormatter;
+use Monolog\Formatter\HtmlFormatter;
 use Monolog\Handler\FilterHandler;
 use Monolog\Handler\WhatFailureGroupHandler;
 use MonologPHPMailer\PHPMailerHandler;
@@ -68,9 +69,6 @@ class Logger extends \Monolog\Logger
         $fileHandler->setFormatter($fileFormatter);
         $this->pushHandler($fileHandler);
 
-        // Archive Old Logs (Move older than 14 days to ZIP)
-        $this->archiveOldLogs($config['logFile']);
-
         // Pushover Alerts (For CRITICAL, ALERT, EMERGENCY)
         if (!empty($_ENV['PUSHOVER_KEY'])) {
             try {
@@ -90,14 +88,14 @@ class Logger extends \Monolog\Logger
                 $mail->SMTPAuth   = true;
                 $mail->Username   = $_ENV['MAIL_USERNAME'];
                 $mail->Password   = $_ENV['MAIL_PASSWORD'];
-                $mail->SMTPSecure = $_ENV['MAIL_ENCRYPTION'];
+                $mail->SMTPSecure = PHPMailer::ENCRYPTION_STARTTLS;
                 $mail->Port       = $_ENV['MAIL_PORT'];
                 $mail->setFrom($_ENV['MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS'], $_ENV['MAIL_FROM_NAME']);
-                $mail->addAddress($_ENV['MAIL_FROM_ADDRESS']); // Send to admin email
+                $mail->addAddress($_ENV['MAIL_TO_ADDRESS']); // Send to admin email
 
                 // Attach PHPMailer to Monolog
                 $mailerHandler = new PHPMailerHandler($mail);
-                $mailerHandler->setFormatter(new LineFormatter());
+                $mailerHandler->setFormatter(new HtmlFormatter());
 
                 // Filter Emails to ALERT, CRITICAL, EMERGENCY Only
                 $filteredMailHandler = new FilterHandler($mailerHandler, \Monolog\Logger::ALERT, \Monolog\Logger::EMERGENCY);
@@ -147,47 +145,4 @@ class Logger extends \Monolog\Logger
         $run->register();
     }
 
-    /**
-     * Archive Old Logs (Older than 14 Days)
-     */
-    private function archiveOldLogs($logFilePath)
-    {
-        $logDir = dirname($logFilePath);
-        $backupDir = '/opt/backup';
-        $lockFile = $backupDir . '/log_archive.lock';
-
-        // Prevent multiple processes from running archive at the same time
-        if (file_exists($lockFile)) {
-            return; // Another process is already archiving
-        }
-        touch($lockFile); // Create lock file
-
-        if (!is_dir($backupDir)) {
-            mkdir($backupDir, 0755, true);
-        }
-
-        $logFiles = glob($logDir . '/*.log'); // Get all log files
-        $thresholdDate = strtotime('-14 days'); // Logs older than 14 days
-
-        foreach ($logFiles as $file) {
-            if (filemtime($file) < $thresholdDate) {
-                $filename = basename($file);
-                $monthYear = date('F-Y', filemtime($file));
-                $zipPath = $backupDir . "/logs-{$monthYear}.zip";
-
-                // Open or create ZIP archive
-                $zip = new ZipArchive();
-                if ($zip->open($zipPath, ZipArchive::CREATE) === true) {
-                    if (!$zip->locateName($filename)) { // Prevent duplicate addition
-                        $zip->addFile($file, $filename);
-                        unlink($file); // Delete original log after archiving
-                    }
-                    $zip->close();
-                }
-            }
-        }
-
-        unlink($lockFile); // Remove lock when done
-    }
-
 }
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diff --git a/cp/bootstrap/database.php b/cp/bootstrap/database.php
index 9e34d90..4e79140 100644
--- a/cp/bootstrap/database.php
+++ b/cp/bootstrap/database.php
@@ -1,28 +1,31 @@
 <?php
 
+use Pinga\Db\PdoDatabase;
+use App\Lib\Logger;
+
+$log = Logger::getInstance('CP');
+
+// Load database config
 $config = config('connections');
-// MySQL Connection
-if (config('default') == 'mysql') {
-    $pdo = new \PDO($config['mysql']['driver'].':dbname='.$config['mysql']['database'].';host='.$config['mysql']['host'].';charset='.$config['mysql']['charset'].'', $config['mysql']['username'], $config['mysql']['password']);
-	$db = \Pinga\Db\PdoDatabase::fromPdo($pdo);
-}
-// SQLite Connection
-elseif (config('default') == 'sqlite') {
-    $pdo = new PDO($config['sqlite']['driver'].":".$config['sqlite']['driver']);
-	$db = \Pinga\Db\PdoDatabase::fromPdo($pdo);
-}
-// PostgreSQL Connection
-elseif (config('default') == 'pgsql') {
-    $pdo = new \PDO($config['pgsql']['driver'].':dbname='.$config['pgsql']['database'].';host='.$config['pgsql']['host'].';', $config['pgsql']['username'], $config['pgsql']['password']);
-	$db = \Pinga\Db\PdoDatabase::fromPdo($pdo);
-}
-// SQL Server Connection
-elseif (config('default') == 'sqlsrv') {
-    $pdo = new PDO($config['sqlsrv']['driver']."sqlsrv:server=".$config['sqlsrv']['host'].";".$config['sqlsrv']['database'], $config['sqlsrv']['username'], $config['sqlsrv']['password']);
-	$db = \Pinga\Db\PdoDatabase::fromPdo($pdo);
-}
-// MySQL Connection as default
-else{
-    $pdo = new \PDO($config['mysql']['driver'].':dbname='.$config['mysql']['database'].';host='.$config['mysql']['host'].';charset='.$config['mysql']['charset'].'', $config['mysql']['username'], $config['mysql']['password']);
-	$db = \Pinga\Db\PdoDatabase::fromPdo($pdo);
+$defaultDriver = config('default') ?? 'mysql';
+
+$supportedDrivers = [
+    'mysql' => "{$config['mysql']['driver']}:dbname={$config['mysql']['database']};host={$config['mysql']['host']};charset={$config['mysql']['charset']}",
+    'sqlite' => "{$config['sqlite']['driver']}:{$config['sqlite']['driver']}",
+    'pgsql' => "{$config['pgsql']['driver']}:dbname={$config['pgsql']['database']};host={$config['pgsql']['host']}"
+];
+
+$pdo = null;
+$db = null;
+
+try {
+    // Select the correct database driver (fallback to MySQL)
+    $driver = $supportedDrivers[$defaultDriver] ?? $supportedDrivers['mysql'];
+
+    // Create PDO connection
+    $pdo = new \PDO($driver, $config[$defaultDriver]['username'], $config[$defaultDriver]['password']);
+    $db = PdoDatabase::fromPdo($pdo);
+
+} catch (PDOException $e) {
+    $log->alert("Database connection failed: " . $e->getMessage(), ['driver' => $defaultDriver]);
 }
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diff --git a/das/start_das.php b/das/start_das.php
index df08a1b..5f5dd9f 100644
--- a/das/start_das.php
+++ b/das/start_das.php
@@ -59,7 +59,17 @@ $server->on('connect', function ($server, $fd) use ($log) {
 // Register a callback to handle incoming requests
 $server->on('receive', function ($server, $fd, $reactorId, $data) use ($c, $pool, $log, $rateLimiter) {
     // Get a PDO connection from the pool
-    $pdo = $pool->get();
+    try {
+        $pdo = $pool->get();
+        if (!$pdo) {
+            throw new PDOException("Failed to retrieve a connection from Swoole PDOPool.");
+        }
+    } catch (PDOException $e) {
+        $log->alert("Swoole PDO Pool failed: " . $e->getMessage());
+        $server->send($fd, "Database failure. Please try again later");
+        $server->close($fd);
+        return;
+    }
     $domain = trim($data);
     
     $clientInfo = $server->getClientInfo($fd);
diff --git a/epp/start_epp.php b/epp/start_epp.php
index fb81f41..a73171a 100644
--- a/epp/start_epp.php
+++ b/epp/start_epp.php
@@ -95,11 +95,14 @@ $server->handle(function (Connection $conn) use ($table, $pool, $c, $log, $permi
 
     $log->info('new client from ' . $clientIP . ' connected');
     sendGreeting($conn);
-  
+
     while (true) {
         try {
             // Get a PDO connection from the pool
             $pdo = $pool->get();
+            if (!$pdo) {
+                throw new PDOException("Failed to retrieve a connection from Swoole PDOPool.");
+            }
             $data = $conn->recv();
             $connId = spl_object_id($conn);
 
@@ -572,7 +575,7 @@ $server->handle(function (Connection $conn) use ($table, $pool, $c, $log, $permi
             }
         } catch (PDOException $e) {
             // Handle database exceptions
-            $log->error('Database error: ' . $e->getMessage());
+            $log->alert('Database error: ' . $e->getMessage());
 
             // Here we only retry if it's a *connection* failure.
             // Common MySQL connection error codes: 2002 (Can't connect), 2006 (Gone away), 2013 (Lost connection).
diff --git a/rdap/start_rdap.php b/rdap/start_rdap.php
index 7b1b3fd..a14df29 100644
--- a/rdap/start_rdap.php
+++ b/rdap/start_rdap.php
@@ -52,7 +52,17 @@ $log->info('server started.');
 // Handle incoming HTTP requests
 $http->on('request', function ($request, $response) use ($c, $pool, $log, $rateLimiter) {
     // Get a PDO connection from the pool
-    $pdo = $pool->get();
+    try {
+        $pdo = $pool->get();
+        if (!$pdo) {
+            throw new PDOException("Failed to retrieve a connection from Swoole PDOPool.");
+        }
+    } catch (PDOException $e) {
+        $log->alert("Swoole PDO Pool failed: " . $e->getMessage());
+        $response->header('Content-Type', 'application/json');
+        $response->status(500);
+        $response->end(json_encode(['error' => 'Database failure. Please try again later.']));
+    }
 
     $remoteAddr = $request->server['remote_addr'];
     if (!isIpWhitelisted($remoteAddr, $pdo)) {
diff --git a/whois/port43/start_whois.php b/whois/port43/start_whois.php
index dd3859e..a7e14cc 100644
--- a/whois/port43/start_whois.php
+++ b/whois/port43/start_whois.php
@@ -59,7 +59,17 @@ $server->on('connect', function ($server, $fd) use ($log) {
 // Register a callback to handle incoming requests
 $server->on('receive', function ($server, $fd, $reactorId, $data) use ($c, $pool, $log, $rateLimiter) {
     // Get a PDO connection from the pool
-    $pdo = $pool->get();
+    try {
+        $pdo = $pool->get();
+        if (!$pdo) {
+            throw new PDOException("Failed to retrieve a connection from Swoole PDOPool.");
+        }
+    } catch (PDOException $e) {
+        $log->alert("Swoole PDO Pool failed: " . $e->getMessage());
+        $server->send($fd, "Database failure. Please try again later");
+        $server->close($fd);
+        return;
+    }
     $privacy = $c['privacy'];
     $minimum_data = $c['minimum_data'];
     $parsedQuery = parseQuery($data);