"Error establishing a database connection" when loading website

What is the name of the domain?

What is the error message?

“Error establishing a database connection”

What is the issue you’re encountering

My website stopped loading and I am seeing a database error message. I have not made any edits to the website in the past week, and it was working as recently as 24 hours ago.

What steps have you taken to resolve the issue?

I have reached out to my webmaster (do people still use that term??) but I’m looking for additional assistance in the meantime as we lose revenue anytime our website is offline

What are the steps to reproduce the issue?

If you visit www.rhodeislandhotyoga.com you can see that our website is down. I’ll post a screenshot showing the message that I see from the wp-admin page.

Screenshot of the error

This is not a Cloudflare-related issue.

Since this is a live site, the database credentials must be correct and there’s likely some hiccup with the database server itself. Please get in touch with your hosting provider – the company you’re paying to host your WordPress website – for assistance.

Ok thank you!

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