The new droplet on Digital Ocean has been working really well. Much faster than bluehost, but I am getting an outage about once every two weeks. The droplet seems to hang with a “no database connection” message.
I normally just restart the droplet, but it is not good. The bluehost site would stay up for years literally with no issues. So time to debug.
https://www.wpbeginner.com/wp-tutorials/how-to-fix-the-error-establishing-a-database-connection-in-wordpress/ is a good place to start. Says that when this happens, try the administration user interface located at `/wp-admin` to see if perhaps there is a problem with database corruption. A good idea.
To repair it, you need to hack at your wp-config.php and add the line
define(‘WP_ALLOW_REPAIR’, true)
Then you go to `wp-admin/maint/repair.php` and you can fix your database
