Unbreaking the Broken Blog

You might not be able to read this. Apparantly ye old CogDogBlog has been crashing much this past week with Error Establishing Database Connection errors. Oh no, Mr Bill! One or two folks notified me (thanks Brian B and JR), but it hardly seems to have created havoc on the internet. I was on a vacation road trip and debugging my Reclaim Cloud dashboard in the car on a mobile device was not viable. What I could do is the venerable reboot / unplug / replug in. My WordPress technical rust is showing. It took me a bit (thanks Reclaim for the docs) to find our where I could get to PHPMyAdmin on Reclaim Cloud. I had not done any optimize or database checks for eons. I also zapped some tables no longer in use. There’s a lot of “stuff” in the cellar. Next was reviewing a few plugins that were not critical, a few that were rather old. And then digging amongst the various error logs to see what I could smell out. Rust. As near as I can tell there are issues with the age of my database and…