Website URL https://beauty26.freedev.app/ Error Message Hello, My website https://beauty26.freedev.app is showing the error “Error establishing a database connection”. The WordPress admin area shows: “Cannot select database. The database server could be connected to (which means your username and…

There have been a number of reports concerning databases that are missing, notably WordPress databases created with Softaculous. I don’t know what happened to them yet, but clearly something has happened, so I’ve submitted a request upstream to look into it.

Dear Admin, Thank you for the update. I understand you are looking into this, but I need to be direct: many of us have lost significant work. My own site (beauty26.freedev.app) is now inaccessible because of a missing database. I made no changes — it simply stopped working. I have several clear qu…

Like I said before: I don’t know what happened to the databases. I’m still waiting on a reply from iFastNet . I don’t know if they are really gone, and I don’t know why it happened. If the databases can be recovered, I don’t know how long that will take. But I can tell you that this is a new phenom…

Just wanted to post an update here in case you didn’t see the issue on the status page. The issue was identified as a database permission issue. The bug has been identified and resolved, and the fix has been retroactively applied to affected websites. This means that the databases that had disappe…

Thank you very much! Everything is working now. Is it possible to contact you to look at your resource’s design themes? I need some help in details here. I still don’t understand anything about how everything works. https://beauty26.freedev.app/

Database connection error on beauty26.freedev.app

Hosting Support

EdwardSkunk September 30, 2026, 7:53pm 5

We’ll have to wait for somebody at iFastNet (InfinityFree’s partner, who owns and operates the actual hosting servers) can get back to Admin before most of those questions can be answered.

Yes absolutely. There’s an official guide on doing so: