After a reboot of the droplet, all works fine for a while. I’m in the 512 MB memory plan. I have 2 WP sites installed. A backup plugin is installed but running weekly.
In addition, when I get the error, and check on the status of mysql I get this: mysql stop/waiting
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I too have the same problem, now my wordpress site is down and I don’t know how to access it again, just so I could backup my posts…I really need them all, including a complete mySQL backup…but both “/var/log/mysql.err” and “/var/log/mysql.log” are empty. how to I regain access to my site?
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