{"id":18857988,"date":"2026-03-20T17:55:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:55:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/database-error-429\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T17:55:22","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T17:55:22","slug":"database-error-429","status":"publish","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/database-error-429\/","title":{"rendered":"Database Error"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">My site went down around 3pm on Wed, Mar 18th. (After being up and down a bit earlier in the day). After a message about it being down, JetPack stopped notifying me and I forgot about it until today. Anyways, I cannot access my website nor can I log into the Admin. Going from either &#8220;direction&#8221; gives the error: &#8220;Error establishing a database connection&#8221;.<br \/><br \/>If, in fact, something needs to be updated, I cannot get in to do it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-18857988","topic","type-topic","status-publish","hentry","topic-tag-database-issue","topic-tag-login","topic-tag-website-down"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18857988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/18857988\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18857988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}