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  • What is the best way to handle this?

    Delete the site, recreate WP, and restore from a backup? Or with it still be corrupted?

    I’m getting intermittent, but continual errors like “Error establishing a database connection”. After my host did a service maintenance and upgraded MYSQL a lot of sites had problems. I think whatever happened may have corrupted my database. My host can’t find the problem ’cause everything works when they check it.

    Any suggestions are most appreciated.

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  • “Error establishing a database connection” means the host is still having problems with their MySQL server connectivity. Tell them to look in their error logs. Who is the host?

    Thread Starter 12sp

    (@sp12)

    Am I allowed to say? I’ll whisper is (yahoo).

    They tell me they don’t see any problems when they view the site or whatever else they are checking, even though I’ve explained in length to several people at this point that it is intermittent.

    That’s why I’m considering recreating the site.

    Yahoo is pretty terrible; you should change hosts. See WordPress › PHP / MySQL Web Hosting

    Thread Starter 12sp

    (@sp12)

    I’ve been with them for over 10 years and they been good. It’s just this last site I created has problems. Quite a few negative things have been said about the recommended hosts as well.

    Yahoo has problems with WP, not usually static html sites; they don’t fully support mod_rewrite for WP permalinks and have issues with their MySQL servers.

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