Title: Database Error (Fark?)
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Database Error (Fark?)

 *  Resolved [buckingham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckingham/)
 * (@buckingham)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-fark/)
 * Hi,
 * Last night I managed to get on the front page on Fark for the first time. This
   morning, my site’s not responding. I get the error:
 * ———————–
    Error establishing a database connection
 * This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.
   php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost. This
   could mean your host’s database server is down.
 * ———————–
 * I can get into the admin and my stats package is working which uses it’s own 
   db.
 * Does anybody know if this might be anything I’ve done or anything that might 
   have been corrupted? I’m running the latest version of WordPress.
 * Thanks,
 * David.

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 *  [Kafkaesqui](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kafkaesqui/)
 * (@kafkaesqui)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-fark/#post-482864)
 * It appears all is well again at your site, but note that when a Fark or Slashdot
   or what have you start sending traffic your way and it’s not prepared for it,
   that can certainly overload a server, both web and db, and cause connections 
   between the two to go down.
 *  Thread Starter [buckingham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckingham/)
 * (@buckingham)
 * [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-fark/#post-482879)
 * Thanks Kafkaesqui. I’ve had to reinstall WordPress and disable some of the plugins.
   At some point, the db had got corrupted and I had to go a backup. I’m wondering
   if the one I was using to create Wordclouds was slowing things down too much.
   It was probably accessing the db far too much, counting every word on the site
   and then counting the number of occurances *for evey single page load*.
 * I’ve learnt my lesson and will now try to keep my pages at a minimum.
 * Thanks.

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 * [heavy](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/heavy/)
 * [load](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/load/)

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 * Last reply from: [buckingham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/buckingham/)
 * Last activity: [19 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/database-error-fark/#post-482879)
 * Status: resolved

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