Had my first major outage since I started this blog.
The db connection is timing out. Have no clue whether it is because of Wordpress related issues or something on the hosting company’s end.
Pages were still loading but when tried to access some old data, the connection was timing out and giving an error.
To the geeks out there, below is the error that is being displayed on some of the pages -
WordPress database error: [Lost connection to MySQL server during query]
For now I have tried deactivating a plugin called Wassup. Hopefully this should resolve the issue.
In case you still experience time lag in page loading, please try to clear your cache. If that doesn’t help, let me know.
Hi Tarun,
Thought I should let you know that your blog seems to be working ok right now.
If you managed to identify the issue then do update your blog with the same. Who knows, someday another one of us may face the same issue.
If the issue is still there and you will need a hand in identifying the same then let me know. I am no expert but still can look into it.
Thanks, but so far so good. I guess it was that one errant plugin. After I deactivated it, WP seems to be working fine.
How I concluded from the error that it could be a plugin was from the error message, although it was not apparent in the initial error messages -
YEAR(post_date)=’2008′ AND MONTH(post_date)=’1′ AND
DAYOFMONTH(post_date)=’23′ AND post_type = ‘post’ AND (post_status =
‘publish’ OR post_status = ‘private’) ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0,
10
But some of the subsequent errors (I did not capture them) gave an indication that the issue could be with the pluggin – http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/wassup/
Once I deactivated it, operations are running fine.