peasnwaffles

I have installed Joomla on a subdomain to experiment with and I just received a similar database error message.

I had bluehost prior to Fatcow and it was not better, it was actually extremely slow, however I did not receive any database errors and they used a normal CPanel.

This issue just occurred again followed by a 500 internal server error.

Got the “error establishing database connection” again this morning. At this point I consider this to be fatcow.com’s service. Nothing in my site has changed and i’m not even about to troubleshoot it. Just making a note of this.

Since that message I have not received any further database errors. The site loaded quite slow (10 – 15 seconds) a few times but other than that no further database errors all day. FatCow did keep in contact with me throughout the day but really provided no help as they didn’t do anything according to their response. The problem essentially fixed it itself, which I am happy about however I can’t help but feel others, if not myself, will run into this issue again because the root cause was never found.

*I reset the collation wp-config file back to ‘ ‘ instead of having UTF8 in the empty space as I imagine that was no the root cause.

Thats the response I got from FatCow’s excellent customer service. Oh and I made another video this morning.

Hello ****,

Currently, the website https://peasnwaffles.com/ is loading fine without any issues. Could you please check it at your end?

If you have any further questions, please update the Support Console.

Sincerely,

Neal Keller

Another video demonstrating about 7 minutes of errors. I clear cache and do normal clicking around.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZBxQz5kk_o

I have started to think the category menu was causing some issue with the db so have tweaked that recently but problem still persists.

I created a support ticket with fatcow. Still happening. Messed with some database tests but everything passes.. Ill keep you posted with results.

Generally to create a category it’s in the “POSTS” section of the wordpress control panel towards the top left.

More than one INDEX key was created for column comment_approved. Would this be the cause? After running a database test of some sort I am left with this error and at this point its the only thing I can possibly repair on my end. Anyone know how to do so? Searching google now will report my findings.

More updates:

– The issue happens on Opera, Firefox, and Google Chrome all updated to their latest releases.

– Can letting a browser sit idle some how lose the database connection? Kind of like a power saving feature?

– Could my ISP cause this type of issue in some way?

– Happens on my netbook & main PC.

Thanks for any help offered.

Video

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3J3736Iu1YA

Name of video: Error establishing connection to Database.

Anyone know what could be causing this? I put the picture of the UTF8 suspected issue at the end of the video. Thanks for any help.

Videos will added as I will keep making videos until the issue is resolved and/or I cancel yet another host.

Just had a chat with fatcow.com support. Pretty much the usual response you get from callcenters which is “sorry”. They tested their servers which appear to be fine. I asked them to log the call and from here on out I will just video tape the error occurring and upload to my youtube account. Ill keep you posted.

Lets see how long this issue has been going on, shall we?

1) https://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=960442
2)https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/fatcow-error-establishing-a-database-connection-1?replies=4
3)https://rurykster.net/tag/database-connection/
4)https://www.earnersblog.com/hosts/error-establishing-a-database-connection/

There is literally endless pages in google about this issue. If you have had this problem please reply to this thread.

I have same host same problem. Discussing here: Did you ever get this resolved?

Opening multiple tabs of my website allows some pages to load while others show a database error? How can my database be incorrect if it loads the tab right next to it ??