Yahoo Speaks!

"Hello Bob,
Thank you for writing to Yahoo! Web Hosting. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to assist you.

I understand that the blog installed in your account is unable to connect to the MySQL database.

Thank you for reporting us the problem you have encountered and I sincerely apologize for the inconvenience this may have caused you.

We have been just informed by our engineers that there is some problem with our MySQL servers and you may encounter one or more of the following problems with the MySQL server:

* Unable to connect to the database
* Can't connect to MySQL server on 'mysql' (61) [Using hostname - mysql]
* The system is either busy or unavailable Please try again later
* #2003 - The server is not responding error message.
* Error connecting to the blog
* Error making database connection

Our Engineers are looking into any difficulties you reported and I again apologize for any inconvenience you may have experienced.

Currently there is no time frame for this problem but I am sure that we will come out with a resolution very soon. Once this problem is resolved you will be notified.

Should you wish to contact us regarding this issue, please refer to case number: 675556

Our engineering team is working on this issue and soon you will be able to access the database.

I appreciate your patience in this regard.

Please do not hesitate to reply if you need further assistance.

Regards,

Flavio
Yahoo! Customer Care"

Yahoo is worthless

Yes...back here again. The reason is below (posted to the WordPress Forum).

Forgive my venting...

I'm getting the infamous "Error establishing a database connection" with my Yahoo-based WP blog. I made no changes. Zip. Zero.

I called Yahoo TS, wandered through some phone menu choices, and was told to call somewhere else. (I could barely hear her because Yahoo uses voice over IP. (hellloooo, India :-))

OK, my bad. I called the wrong tech support. I tried again. I navigated through the menus and got a human who told me Yahoo does not support this third-party software.

This is the second time Yahoo TS has misbehaved for me. This first time happened when I asked them how to change domains and, following their advice, lost two months worth of work.

I must have been very bad in a former life. :-)

I gotta say this again: I changed nothing. I am about done with Yahoo services and need to find another host.