https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Random: ERROR CONNECTING TO DATABASE en Mon, 04 May 2026 01:29:50 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/random-error-connecting-to-database#post-23658 Fri, 17 Jul 2015 16:51:35 +0000 AMurray 23658@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Sounds like an issue with your hosting service, maybe something changed at their end, if as you say it's only started today.</p> <p>Check with your hosting Support that the host name for the database is correct - normally it would be "localhost" and you put that in the configuration.php as the "host_name" variable value. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/random-error-connecting-to-database#post-23628 Tue, 14 Jul 2015 21:41:10 +0000 Al 23628@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Starting today I can sometimes connect to my webpage and sometimes I cannot. The error message is:</p> <p>Error connecting to the database: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2005] Unknown MySQL server host 'Al_Schuch.db.9213906.hostedresource.com' (2)</p> <p>I did not update nor change the order form.</p> <p>Here is the link: <a href="http://poetsstudy.com/machform/view.php?id=645" rel="nofollow">http://poetsstudy.com/machform/view.php?id=645</a> </p>