chaosprime

The MySQL port on your database server, 69.90.236.17, appears to be firewalled from the rest of the Internet, so perhaps it’s firewalled from your WP install as well. You can test this from a command line with:

telnet 69.90.236.17 3306

If it just hangs there, you’re firewalled. (If it connects, hit ctrl-] q enter to get out.) If you are firewalled, you need to talk to whoever admins the network your database server is on.

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Can you find any more detailed error information than that? It’s possible that you have lingering database connections that are causing you to hit your mysql server’s connection limit. A workaround (maybe not a permanent fix, depending on why your connections are lingering) is to increase the max_connections parameter in your my.cnf (usually found in /etc or /etc/mysql on a unix machine); it’s 100 by default.