Title: Error establishing a database connection
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Error establishing a database connection

 *  [themusicophile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themusicophile/)
 * (@themusicophile)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-151/)
 * I’m having intermittent problems displaying my site in a browser. It comes up
   with the message’Error establishing a database connection’.
 * So far it keeps coming back after a minute or so. It’s happening as I edit my
   theme (inove), especially when I do anything with the sidebar widgets.
 * Is this something someone else has experienced? Is there something I’m doing 
   wrong? Could it be my hosting company having problems?
 * The URL is [http://www.themusicophile.com](http://www.themusicophile.com) if 
   that helps at all.
 * Thanks

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 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-151/#post-1216021)
 * If it’s intermittent, then it’s probably your hosting company…server and/or db
   crashing or dropping the connection.
 * EDIT: I see a banner in your sidebar that reads:
 * _“The servers which host this website/blog are powered by 100% wind energy”_
 * Maybe the wind is a little erratic 😉
 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-151/#post-1216034)
 * > server and/or db crashing or dropping the connection.
 * as figaro points out
    use the host’s phpmyadmin to run a “repair” on the `wp_options`
   table in the database
 *  Thread Starter [themusicophile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/themusicophile/)
 * (@themusicophile)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-151/#post-1216105)
 * I’ve run the repair as samboll suggested, not sure whether it’s done anything
   though, haven’t had the problem since, but it was intermittent anyway so who 
   knows. Thank you for the quick replies.
 * Maybe it is just the wind figaro, these things happen to me. I was cycling the
   other day and got three punctures in less than an hour. I guess it’s just the
   price you pay for being green…
 *  [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * (@figaro)
 * [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-151/#post-1216111)
 * > I was cycling the other day and got three punctures in less than an hour.
 * I hear that…in 94 I rode my bike, along with three of my running club buddies,
   from Lands-end to John O’Groats, about 1,100 miles, loaded with camping gear,
   and never got a single puncture. I ride 10 miles on paved road now and seem to
   get one every other time I go out 😉 Go figure…

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 * [connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/connection/)
 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)

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 * Last reply from: [figaro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/figaro/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-151/#post-1216111)
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