Title: WordPress killing the DB?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# WordPress killing the DB?

 *  [ts383](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ts383/)
 * (@ts383)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-killing-the-db/)
 * Up until yesterday, everything was working in on my site, but now I get an “Error
   establishing a database connection” message when trying to the blog. Trying to
   load myAdmin to see what’s up results in a #1040 Error — Too many connections.
 * Not sure why this would begin happening all the sudden…this is a straight “out-
   of-the-box” install of wordpress…any ideas?

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 *  [TechGnome](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techgnome/)
 * (@techgnome)
 * [20 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wordpress-killing-the-db/#post-326018)
 * Odds are your host is running in a shared environment, and between you and everyone
   else on the server, too many connections to the mySQL server were created.
 * -tg

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