I experienced some downtime last night between 9pm-12am CST for everyone of my sites. Every site on the server returned “error establishing a database connection”. After contacting support, they suggested i install caching. Seriously? Now it’s 4pm on a monday, and all my sites are down again. I could understand downtime on a sunday night for maintenance or what not, but not during business hours on a monday. I’m on boxelder. Some info as to what’s going on would be greatly appreciated. Thanks.
All my sites are down
The answer from support, seems to need more explanation than that, if the didn’t back up that statement I would certainly ask them to explain.
“error establishing a database connection” sounds more like a problem with the database server than caching would solve on the webserver.
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Wonder if this is related:
https://discussion.dreamhost.com/thread-137187-post-162322.html#pid162322
It took 2-3 emails alerting them to the problem before I got something besides what seemed to be a stock answer. From what I’m told there was an abusive user on the mysql database, and everything should be fine now. However, I just checked and all my sites are still returning the same database error. Sending another email to support. Come on dreamhost this is getting a little ridiculous.
I am having the exact same problem - just emailed them right now. Is there anything I can do on my end? My site is: http://www.prayersandapples.com