By rhombusone
Hi there,
I’ve recently got the $10/m package and I’ve got two sites running off the server. A static jekyll site, and a wordpress website.
I had both running really nicely, however, this morning I found: Error establishing a database connection when visiting the wordpress site. I ran free -m to see how much memory I had left and I could see there was only like 96mb left.
Can anyone help me figure out how it’d suddenly stop working and drain all the memory, and why, even after a restart I still can’t access the site. What can I do to fix and avoid this problem in the future. Do you recommend a higher package to run a wordpress website?
Thanks in advance
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You need to add swap: <a href=“https://digitalocean.com/community/articles/how-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-12-04”>How To Add Swap on Ubuntu 12.04</a>. WordPress is also best optimized with Nginx and caching. So, it’s advisable to check out (i) memcache; (ii) APC; (iii) varnish; and (iv) the W3 Total Cache plugin – in addition to switching to Nginx.
@Ibranhim, did you manage to fix it? we got the same problem here with an wordpress installation… :/
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