"error establishing a database connection"

  • A couple days ago I removed two ‘free’ plugins that were showing my site as ‘under construction’. I did not put the plugins there. Now no one can access my blog and I can’t access administering my blog, either. This is what the message is when I go to administer my blog!

    Error establishing a database connection
    This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at rol1106408172966.db.7545929.hostedresource.com. This could mean your host’s database server is down.

    Are you sure you have the correct username and password?
    Are you sure that you have typed the correct hostname?
    Are you sure that the database server is running?
    If you’re unsure what these terms mean you should probably contact your host. If you still need help you can always visit the WordPress Support Forums

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  • Have you contacted your hosts about this?

    Thread Starter rolynnanderson

    (@rolynnanderson)

    How would I do that? There doesn’t seem to be a way to contact word press directly. The other weird thing…the error message I quoted disappeared, and the blog is back as is the admin. site. Sigh. I have no idea how the plug-ins appeared or why, when I dumped the two of them this error message appeared. I did remove my ‘sysadmin’ user in case that general user category allowed the plug-ins to appear. Hard to know why all this happens!

    www.remarpro.com doesn’t host any WordPress sites and you are currently using the only “contact” available here. You are paying a hosting company to host your WordPress install. It’s this company that you need to contact.

    Thread Starter rolynnanderson

    (@rolynnanderson)

    This is odd. I pay GoDaddy to take care of my website, but I don’t pay anyone for this www.remarpro.com blog site. As far as I know, this is a free site. How do I know/find out who my host is?

    What is the URL of your site?
    If the blog is part of your site, then GoDaddy is your host.

    Or perhaps it is on WordPress.COM (which is not the same as www.remarpro.com) – see this on the difference:

    https://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

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