Thread:Project:Support desk/Cannot connect database server/reply (5)

Yepp, some webhosts are more likely to break their customer's systems than others. I realize there seems to be a correlation: The more money you spend in hosting, the less likely will you have problems with it.

Something that you might still want to do is: Upgrade your MediaWiki installation to a current version. That is 1.24.2 (where doing an upgrade should be trivial) or 1.25.1, which is even newer.