Error establishing a database connection – please help

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  stevenwarriner · Member · Apr 9, 2019 at 5:18 am

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  Hello.
  I cannot seem to access my website. It says ‘Error establishing a database connection’
  How do we correct this please?
  Thanks
  Steven Warriner
  
  @stevenwarriner SCOOTERSTEVE

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  poojashetty18 · Staff · Apr 9, 2019 at 6:12 am

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  Hi,

  Your website scootersteve.co.za is not hosted on WordPress.com. It is using the open source version.
  Please note that this is a public forum only for websites hosted on WordPress.com.

  There’s another support forum for WordPress.org self-hosted site, you can navigate to WordPress.org forum using this link:
  https://wordpress.org/support/

  If you want to know more about the differences between WordPress.com and the open source WordPress.org software you can read this article:

  WordPress.com vs. WordPress.org

  Thanks!

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  fudhailyusoff · Member · Apr 9, 2019 at 7:26 am

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  Hi poojashetty18,

  Can i know, how can you know the website is not hosted on WordPress or not ?