Title: Database error every once in a while
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Database error every once in a while

 *  [Fornes](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fornes/)
 * (@fornes)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-every-once-in-a-while/)
 * Hi!
 * I’m having a problem with my page going down several times a day. It either loads
   forever, or show the “error establishing database connection”. It will stay like
   this for a couple of minutes, and then the site works just fine again right after.
   This happens a couple of times a day. Very annoying.
 * All plugins and WordPress itself are updated. I’ve also tried optimizing the 
   database from both phpmyadmin and the Wp-optimize plugin.
 * Any idea what might cause this? A bad plugin? Very hard to find out what might
   be causing the problem since the site is only down once in a while, a couple 
   of minutes each time…
 * Tell me if you need any more information.
 * Thanks for helping.

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 *  [Mark Ratledge](https://wordpress.org/support/users/songdogtech/)
 * (@songdogtech)
 * [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-every-once-in-a-while/#post-3365864)
 * Intermittent “error establishing database connection” errors are 95% a web host
   problem. Their database server is dropping out from time to time.
 * Who is your webhost? Have you asked them about the errors?

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-every-once-in-a-while/#post-3365864)
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