Question
Wordpress One Step Install and Database Connection Failures
- Posted on July 17, 2022
- WordPress
Asked by mpmilestogo
Hi all. I have been playing around with the wordpress one step installer on ubuntu at https://mpmilestogo.site. The site is very responsive most times but it seems to suffer with database connection failures at times. I just bumped up CPU, storage, and RAM because it seems to happen if I ask the site to take a photo or photos. I also run a few custom plugins like the ActivityPub plugin which federates my site and webmentions. The VPS can be reached by SSH when it claims there is a database connection issue. Are there other things I should be aware of to try with the VPS? I have run updates on the site and also upgraded wordpress to the latest.
One of the sites mentioned that this can occur with memory limits and I do use the site regularly to post blogs and also have comments. It is not a production or professional blog or anything. Its more of a hobbyist and entertainment thing to me but I enjoy making the site available because it covers my wandering around in retirement.
Thanks for reading!
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Hi there,
As you are seeing a database connection error, what I could suggest is tweaking your MySQL installation for better performance and reliability as described here:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/questions/how-to-tweak-mysql-mariadb-configuration-for-increased-performance-and-stability
Also, as a side note, you could also add a swap file so that you could have some extra memory buffer in case that your server runs out of memory:
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-add-swap-space-on-ubuntu-20-04
Hope that this helps!
Best,
Bobby