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Re: SMF was unable to connect to the database?
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Bizmark13
on 02/02/2015, 04:28:59 UTC
I can't access the forum for few hours and it keeps on this pages that says there are connection problems. Anyone?

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I saw the same error as well. There's more information in this thread:

http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=932315

Basically, the hardware (or more specifically the hard disks) that the site was hosted on had some problems and some data was lost. After recovering the site data from a backup, theymos has been tweaking and fixing a few things so some downtime over the next few days is to be expected:

There will some periodic downtime over the next few days (a few hours in total) as we get everything reconfigured/settled. A few things might be broken. Tell me if you see any bugs.