Title: Error establishing a database connection message
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Error establishing a database connection message

 *  [dinapea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dinapea/)
 * (@dinapea)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-message/)
 * Ok..I host with one of the listed 1 click onstall wp providers and this PM my
   page now looks like this:
 * Error establishing a database connection…etc..
    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 dinapea.anker.ca. This could mean your host’s 
   database server is down…
 * I go to my panel at (dreamhost) and now the sql database name that coincides 
   with this wp install is gone?
 * Is this a hack or a simple system down thing?
 * Please advise!!

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 *  [Cypher](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cypher/)
 * (@cypher)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-message/#post-382451)
 * Since it’s Dreamhost, I’m going to guess that the db server is down..:)
 * Regards
 *  [stockwallpapers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stockwallpapers/)
 * (@stockwallpapers)
 * [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-message/#post-382616)
 * I got the same problem too but my server isnt down.

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

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 * Last reply from: [stockwallpapers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stockwallpapers/)
 * Last activity: [20 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/error-establishing-a-database-connection-message/#post-382616)
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