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Can't access hyperelectric.ninja (wordpress site) hosted by Digital Ocean

Posted on May 26, 2016

This is the 2nd domain that I’ve purchased from Gandi & hosted through Digital Ocean where I’ve received the following message:

  1. Error establishing a database connection

I then turned off & turned back on the droplet. I also resized the droplet from 1 GB to 2 GB.

  1. On the second day, I now get this message “www.hyperelectric.ninja’s server DNS address could not be found.”

My doman is pointed towards: ns1.digitalocean.com ns2.digitalocean.com ns3.digitalocean.com

It’s a wordpress site. 2 GB Memory / 40 GB Disk / NYC2 - Ubuntu WordPress on 14.04

I don’t understand what the issue is. Please help!



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