Error message: “ Error establishing a database connection”
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Hi @FidelM
Without seeing the database error log, then the best guess would be that you’re running out of RAM, so if you have a $5 droplet, then resize it to $10.
And if you are using CloudFlare’s offline-cache, then you need to setup some cache, since it visits every page within a very short time, which can easily drain the server for RAM.
Run the following command to show the last 40 lines of the database error log:
tail -40 /var/log/mysql/error.log
Hi Ansen,
I have RAM of 1GB and droplets of $10.
I ran the command to show the last 40 lines of the database error log:
tail -40 /var/log/mysql/error.log Thanks for this. I was able to read through the logs.
However, I had earlier performed a site cleanup using https://sitecheck.sucuri.net and the results showed that it was internal server errors.
I then had to restore a snapshot/image of the droplet that I had taken 2 months ago.
My wordpress sites are up and running on well!
The Site Check at Sucuri can hit your server very hard, so running that test actually creates like 50+ requests within a very short period. That would be enough to crash your database if you were low on RAM.
But glad to hear you’re up and running again.
same error for me, i have 2 droplet with same wordpres site and details one crash and one work nice, WHY?
Hi @ghostpizza
Can you create another question, since your problem might be different, just so we don’t mix two questions.
And please provide more information by running the following commands and include the output in the question:
free -h
tail -40 /var/log/mysql/error.log
yes sorry, here my discussion: https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/wordpress-mysql-crash