Error establishing a database connection

Been a couple Y! posts about this today…

https://install4free.wordpress.com/

I am getting the same errors here on my sites:

https://www.elcreations.org/engloy/photoblog/
https://www.elcreations.org/lipsengtan/photoblog/

These have been working fine for months and I have not made any configuration changes. It seems that the Yahoo SQL servers may be down. I tried to access the databases direct through phpadmin. Even that gives me an error message: #2003 – The server is not responding.

I have emailed Yahoo! support, but I wouldn’t expect too much of a speedy reply given their previous track record: see https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/72286?replies=68

Hope their support is monitoring these forums.

Having problems since last night…using Yahoo! too

https://tamilweek.com/news-features/wp-admin/

Yahoo! Small Business user here, too.

My blog was fine this morning when I got up around 6:00. By 9:00 it was on the blink. I made no changes to the website whatsoever in the interim. (I was out on an errand; how could I?!)

This is definitely a Yahoo! server issue. Nothing on the site using MySQL works at all (WordPress, PhpMyAdmin, phpBB, MediaWiki, my own scripts).

What’s really strange is that on another site also hosted on Yahoo!, all of the above are running fine. (?!?)

It has been obvious to me for a while now that web hosting is just a minor side business for Yahoo! (or at least, that’s how they act!) but have been willing to overlook the limitations on what they allow you to do with your site because (in my case at least) they’ve usually gotten problems cleared up within a few hours at most.

If this continues, though, it looks like I am going to have to consider overcoming my natural inertia and start shopping around.

Blog URL: https://www.ibadairon.net/blog/

Edit: I’m in Japan, by the way, so a long, drawn out call to their support is not something I really want to think about!

Edit: I’m in Japan, by the way, so a long, drawn out call to their support is not something I really want to think about!

Yeah, kinda makes a scrotum-piercing procedure look good in comparison.

Um, lacking any personal experiential referent for that (no piercings anywhere), I’ll have to rely on my imagination and say you’ve got a point. ??

I’m finding it hard to believe that only four of us are experiencing this problem…?!

I’ve sent two messages now through their “Contact us” link. Probably no one on duty over the weekend. Give it another day, I guess.

Update – Still no response from Yahoo! I also find it hard to believe that only 4 of us are experiencing this problem.

At this point, I am seriously considering setting up my autoresponder to send an email to Yahoo! every 15 minutes until I get a response.

Yahoo! advertises “Contact Customer Care
Still can’t find what you need? Our Customer Care team is ready to help, 24 hours a day.” Where are they then?

I am extremely new to this but since yesterday I have been getting errors when accessing my page…and now I can not see any graphics on it…just text. I am not using Yahoo…I am using site5.com.

It’s 6:54 Monday morning here and I just checked my blog for the first time: It’s back up. (As are the others linked to above.) I can get into the database using the admin tool, so it looks like they fixed whatever was wrong. Will try to keep a close eye on it through the day, though.

No email response from Yahoo! yet; it would be nice if some sort of explanation were in the pipe.

And so it goes….

It’s Tuesday here. My site was working well as Ibadairon mentioned for the whole of yesterday. However, I am starting to get the same error again, albeit intermittently. Not a whimper from the goons at Yahoo. Wonder what’s happening again…

OK. I spoke too soon. Just checked my mail:

Hello Eng Loy,

Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Web Hosting.

Thank you for reporting us the problem you have encountered and I
sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this have caused you.

You may encounter one or more of the following problems with the
functionality of your MySQL server:

* Unable to connect to the database
* Can’t connect to MySQL server on ‘mysql’ (61) [Using hostname –
mysql]

* The system is either busy or unavailable Please try again later
* #2003 – The server is not responding error message.
* Error connecting to the blog
* Error making database connection

At this time, I would like to assure you that our engineers are already
on their toes to get this issue resolved quickly. Unfortunately, there
is no ETA for this problem. Once this

problem is resolved we will notify you.

Should you wish to contact us regarding this issue, please refer to
case
number: 779421

I realize the gravity of the situation and how it can affect your
business. Thank you for your understanding and patience in this matter.

Please do not hesitate to reply if you need further assistance.

Regards,

Georgia

Yahoo! Customer Care

No ETA for the problem????! This is the second time in less than 6 months that I am getting this problem. If they don’t solve it soon, looks like I’ll be ditching Yahoo webhosting.

The first time I checked my blog this morning I got the error page again. I hit reload and now it *seems* to be OK.

Since I sent two messages on Sunday, I received two replies, the first from the Flavio who is mentioned in other threads here (I assume) and the second from a Chloe. Their messages were slightly different from the above, but the case number is exactly the same.

(By the way, what is an “ETA” for a problem? I’d say it is already here!)

CORRECTION: It’s down again.

I posted a question on this one to yahoo… all I got is a reply by FLAVIO…

I think Flavio is a BOT!

Its not only the blog thats not WORKING.. all my scripts are not WORKING…