Question
what are the source of errors: error establishing database connection
- Posted on February 9, 2015
Asked by minhbkx
Hi all,
I moved to DO from a shared host. I asked a freelance admin to do it for me as im not a techie.
Since my website is on DO then im facing many times website down with the common error as stated in topic title. Thing i didnt experience before with my shared host though shared host was very humble. There was a time i had an error with my IP used as torrent ip so i changed to a new ip. In the shared host i also changed, installed many plugins but didnt have these errors.
My droplet is 4Gb RAM Centos 6.5 64bit. Traffic is just increasing 20-25% with shared host traffic.
So what could be the reason?
- Some plugins?
- DO’s infrastructure problem?
- freelance admin didn’t configure the host well?
- some neutral issues? -…
Please help! Thank you, Minh
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thank you, it already has 1gb swap space. yes it was working whenever i can restart mysqld or restart the droplet.
The error means that wordpress(php) cannot connect to your database ( where your wordpress content is stored)
The database is likely mysql…
Login to your server and type:
su - (Enter password) service mysqld status
Does it say Running?
If not, try: service mysqld start
Reload your page, Is it working now?
If mysql had stopped, it could be down to a bad plugin crashing mysql ( or you may of ran out of memory? )
Might be worth adding a small 1G swap file to your centos server… By default DO images dont have one and MYSQL willl die if it cant swap / runs out of memory.
obviously you have bigger issues if you run out of memory… but its a start…
**So what could be the reason? **