Title: “Maintenance Work on Server”
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# “Maintenance Work on Server”

 *  [rainer23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainer23/)
 * (@rainer23)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maintenance-work-on-server/)
 * Once or twice a year our provider (name withheld) comes up with, “maintenance
   work on server”. During those usually three days, things work very shaky, unsteady.
   White pages, the whole website doesn’t show up, to name a view.
    Question is,
   is there an online tool to check if the database server of your provider is working
   properly? Thanks for any information!

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maintenance-work-on-server/#post-1417816)
 * If you can use [phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/phpMyAdmin) to see your
   database then the database server would be working.
 *  Thread Starter [rainer23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainer23/)
 * (@rainer23)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maintenance-work-on-server/#post-1417842)
 * Yes, I can see the database with phpMyAdmin. When using [http://www.servercheck.me/website-not-working/result.php](http://www.servercheck.me/website-not-working/result.php)
   it says, this server seems to be offline.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maintenance-work-on-server/#post-1417844)
 * A web-site not working is different than a database server not working. The web-
   site is using web-server software such as Apache and that could mean Apache is
   not running or the Apache server is not running.
 * Might be time to consider a new hosting arrangement.
 *  Thread Starter [rainer23](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rainer23/)
 * (@rainer23)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maintenance-work-on-server/#post-1417945)
 * Yes, it says MySQL server seems to be offline. But still I can access my database
   via phpMyAdmin.
 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maintenance-work-on-server/#post-1418001)
 * If you can use [phpMyAdmin](http://codex.wordpress.org/phpMyAdmin) to access 
   your database, then I’d guess that your blog should be working unless the web-
   server is not working.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maintenance-work-on-server/#post-1418001)
 * Status: not resolved

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