Error establishing a database connection

  • I find my website is acting very weird. The problem I’m facing is that sometime when I play with a plugin I get the message “Error establishing a database connection”, but only for the backend. The front end works fine. Yesterday I went on the plugin “Calculated Fields Form” I only created a new form and did nothing else. Today I try to connect to the backend of my website and it gives me this message.

    It’s the 2nd time that this problem happens to me (first time with another plugin that I deleted) so I went on filezilla and renamed the plugin to deactivate it. It solved the problem like it did the first time.

    I am wondering what can cause that. I have an extremely cheap host 3ix.org. I think I only pay like 20$ a year. Is it possible that it is what causes the problem?

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  • If your front end is working fine and you are are getting an “Error establishing a database

    connection” issue in the backend of your wordpress site then this is an issue with your

    wordpress files. Some of this could be a corrupted database, most of these are bad plugins,

    addons, corrupted themes that needs to be updated by their developers.

    There are also times that you are getting this “Error establishing database connection”

    when your hosting server is experiencing a huge volume of traffic and the database where

    your server is located might be dead or not responding. But since your site is working on

    the front end, then this is not more of a hosting issue but this leads to the other issue

    which is your WordPress Plugin issue.

    This issue can only be addressed or corrected by simply “renaming” the plugin folder in

    your webspace. You just need to connect to your webspace via FTP and then rename the recent

    plugin that you installed before the error occurred.

    If you’re not sure which plugin causes this issue, you can rename one plugin at a time and

    then check it after renaming that one plugin in particular if that would resolve the issue.

    Also try to clear your cache and cookies in your browser to make sure that it will show the

    new update/changes you made on your wordpress.

    We hope that this will help you fix your issue.

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