Have had to reboot server twice in two days

Posted on December 25, 2013

Hi, I set up a WordPress blog on Digital Ocean and I’ve had to reboot the server twice in two days. After setting up the blog, and posting one story successfully, I returned to admire my beautiful work two hours later only to see the message (Error Establishing Database Connection). I then rebooted the server and got it working again, posted another heartbreaking story successfully, and, after waiting a period of time, I returned to admire my first two stories only to see Error Establishing Database Connection again, which I was able to fix by rebooting the server.

I used the tutorial on your website to setup wordpress with Apache and Mysql.

Is this expected behavior? Is there anything I could do to prevent this from happening?

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thejuli

December 25, 2013

Maybe you have to optimize your web server / sql stuff? I’m doing fine and I’m using WP as well. If I was you I will just set up cron to restart AMP every 2 hours etc.

pablo

December 25, 2013

“Error Establishing Database Connection” That’s a very common problem w/Apache + MySQL residing on the same server. That’s why WordPress.com (the inventors of WordPress) dumped Apache – in favor of Nginx – years ago (not to mention that every premium/dedicated WordPress-hosting company also uses Nginx instead of Apache).