lately I have been loading my website, and almost every time I do (once or twice a day) the message: "Error establishing a database connection". I have resolved it temporarily by stopping and starting mysql using 'service mysql stop' then 'service mysql start'.
My website works after I send these commands over ssh.
However this is recurring, every time I load my website, say the next day, I get the same error.
My server is running Ubuntu 14.04 (DigitalOcean) and has mysql, phpmyadmin and wordpress installed.
Can anyone give my some advice on how to resolve this?
1 Answer
Anything in the log file?
less /var/log/messages
less /var/log/syslog
As for me, first time over at Digital Ocean I burned myself not setting up a swapfile and with the 500mb RAM I quickly learned that this was needed. (e.g. services/server crashed) Maybe you have more memory available, still worth checking.
You can check with:
sudo swapon -s
If this is the issue, please see their howto on to do this: How-to-add-swap-on-ubuntu-14-04
