MWorld offline for a few hours last night
Well that was scary!
Around 8pm last night I logged onto my server and discovered that WordPress is freaking out about not being able to connect to the database. So I check my cPanel and jump into the MySql section and NO DATABASES ARE SHOWING!!! My stats still show that I have data sitting in the database so that’s good.
So I checked with my host and the issue seems to be system wide as I can’t even submit a ticket, so I fired off an email to their tech support. I received this this around 2:30am:
Yes, something did definitely go wrong with Mysql today. Unfortunately, the logs are not giving up any secrets at this point, but we’re still looking into the cause. The server has been running for a couple hours now without incident, but we’ll be keeping an eye on it in case something pops up again.
It doesn’t look like there’s been any data loss at the database level. Whatever web applications were trying to write to the database are another story, obviously. Please do let us know if you see any problems that are not fixed at this point.
Well, at least I’m back up. I hate it when that happens.