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

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# Error establishing a database connection

 *  [brunogags](https://wordpress.org/support/users/brunogags/)
 * (@brunogags)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-488/)
 * 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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 *  [hammerwave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hammerwave/)
 * (@hammerwave)
 * [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-488/#post-8331563)
 * 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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 * [Error establishing a database connection](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/error-establishing-a-database-connection/)

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 * Last reply from: [hammerwave](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hammerwave/)
 * Last activity: [9 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-488/#post-8331563)
 * Status: not resolved

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