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I've hosted my site on a server provider that I got cheaply. Recently when the traffic to the site increased suddenly I started getting a Database Error and when I try to login to the wordpress dashboard, I'm getting a message that perhaps the username and password in the wp-config.php file might be wrong. So, I logged onto my cpanel and created a new user for the MySQL database and when I replaced those parameters in the wp-congig file, the site started working again but only for a few minutes!! I started getting the error again! And this has become a routine. I'm not able to understand where the problem is! Tried to contact Support but they couldn't do anything either. It worked consistently for a full day when I installed Hyper Cache plugin but then again it was back to normal. Is there anything I can do??

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Did you consider getting a more powerfull server? – TomTom Jun 25 '11 at 11:29
Yes, that's something I'm gonna do right away. I just wanted to know what's causing the problem – Uday Kanth Jun 25 '11 at 18:23
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If the password you have configured for the database stops working, and you need to keep creating new users / passwords then I'm afraid someone is changing them.

If you're not - and your hosting provided isn't - then someone else has access to your server ...

(Unless wp-config.php keeps resetting to some default value, but it's more likely that someone's got access they shouldn't have)

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Yea that's what I thought, but it happened like a couple of dozen times or so...so i wondered who would have so much determination to keep changing the passwords! – Uday Kanth Jun 25 '11 at 18:26
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