http://wordpress.org/support/ WordPress › Support Topic: occasional loss of database connection en Tue, 24 Nov 2009 06:30:45 +0000 http://wordpress.org/support/topic/283533#post-1115185 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:01:24 +0000 oldbag66 1115185@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>thanks, the db server needed a total restart im monitering it over the next few days </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/283533#post-1115167 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:33:43 +0000 NC@WP 1115167@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>"Error establishing a database connection" can mean several things.</p> <p>If this error comes up intermittently, rather than all the time, it is possible that the DB server is overloaded, so it cannot accept any new incoming connections until one of the existing connections closes.</p> <p>If this error comes up persistently in response to a certain action (such as an attempt to create a new post), it may be a permissions issue (the DB user whose credentials WP uses is not allowed to write into a specific DB table). </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/283533#post-1115088 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 17:17:01 +0000 oldbag66 1115088@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>further clues to help advise me are that, ive recently upgraded from 2.7.1 to 2.8, one of the signed ADMIN USERS reckon its happens when they try to add a post etc </p> http://wordpress.org/support/topic/283533#post-1115068 Wed, 24 Jun 2009 16:59:49 +0000 oldbag66 1115068@http://wordpress.org/support/ <p>Hi ive just set up a website using WP, usually i have no problems what so-ever, but this one has already lost databse connection twice in one day, its a Plesk Apache server and this is the message i get when going to the home page (or any other):</p> <p><strong>Error establishing a database connection</strong></p> <p>any ideas?</p> <p>ta </p>