Error establishing a database connection

  • I started receiving this error this afternoon with my WordPress Blog which is at:

    https://www.skepticalraptor.com/skepticalraptorblog.php/

    I am unable to go to any individual post nor the dashboard. This started earlier this afternoon. I contacted my hosting service, who reset the MySQL server, which seemed to resolve the problem for an hour or so. Then I was able to connect intermittently. Now not at all.

    And typical of these things, the web host service went from very helpful to blaming WordPress for this issue.

    My technical competence is minimal for SQL, so if there are suggestions, assume I don’t know anything, which is true. Please give me a step by step method to fix things.

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  • I contacted my hosting service, who reset the MySQL server, which seemed to resolve the problem for an hour or so. Then I was able to connect intermittently. Now not at all.

    Talk to them again; it’s a server issue and nothing you have done. Your host appears to be machighway.com

    And, BTW, that’s an odd URL with the .php on the end. Why?

    Thread Starter skepticalraptor

    (@skepticalraptor)

    When I first started out, I wanted to create a full website with a blog page. So my website is:

    https://www.skepticalraptor.com

    The web authoring software I’m using, Rapid Weaver, does include a blogging “page”, but it is ridiculously behind the times, has poor SEO tools (well none), and has some quirks that are really annoying like loading all posts on one page, so it could be huge.

    There is a plugin for RapidWeaver to create a WordPress blog within the shell of the web authoring tool. It has worked for years through two websites, so I’ve stuck with that.

    However, I’ve noticed that I can get WordPress themes that have tabs, so I can set up a website with a nice blog page. I just don’t have the skills to convert it without massive 404 errors, etc. I wish I could start over, and if someone has an idea on how to do that, I’d love it. Right now, I’ve got edit my blog through dashboard, but any fine tuning of the website requires me to use RapidWeaver. Ugh.

    I’m contacting the hosting service. They really are claiming it’s my fault, but when they reset the server, it did work.

    Thread Starter skepticalraptor

    (@skepticalraptor)

    And now it’s working again, and the Web Host claims they’ve done nothing.

    What is going on here? Right now I can access every post, my dashboard is completely functional, etc.

    We’ll see what happens.

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