Sorry! There seems to be a problem connecting to our database

[dudemaaan]

What does this mean?

I'm getting this error on my site

Sorry!
There seems to be a problem connecting to our database. Please give us a few minutes to remedy the problem. Thank you.

www.wannaspeed.com/catalog

everything was working fine and then I clicked to add a product and now I cant pull my site up or log into the administration section

[schoolboy]

If you have made NO CHANGES to the two configure.php files, then contact your host.

Your site eventually loaded OK for me... but it took quite a while - 72 seconds - (suggesting an over-worked server).

This is usually a warning sign that you should consider a more "appropriate" hosting environment.

[ecdiscounts]

What does this mean?

I'm getting this error on my site

Sorry!
There seems to be a problem connecting to our database. Please give us a few minutes to remedy the problem. Thank you.

www.wannaspeed.com/catalog

everything was working fine and then I clicked to add a product and now I cant pull my site up or log into the administration section

Man like schoolboy said it takes a longtime to even load your site, your probably timming out trying to connect. I bet your host oversold the server your on and it's getting slammed.

[schoolboy]

domaintools.com reports 193 websites sharing your IP address (resident on your server)... This is quite a few - and you only need a few really big sites that drain resources to slow yours down.

Do a reverse IP lookup, find out who else is on that server, and see if their sites are taking a long time to load.

[dudemaaan]

Turns out my host provider has been going through some major upgrades, they had to remove the database for a period of time. They put it back up about 45 mins later. Thanks for the responses.