Nightmare host

On the day Field of Depth is 'noteworthy' at photofriday.com, the database craps out so nobody can comment, and I can't upload new pictures.

I knew there was a reason I stopped using my Dreamhost account. Unfortunately, my two Pair.com accounts are maxed out (bandwidth-wise).

update: Dreamhost claim the db is working fine. They say it must be the 'third party software', i.e. MT. I don't know, it's pretty uncommon for MT 2.6 to just stop working like that (An error occurred: Connection error: Access denied for user: 'cvodb@tank.dreamhost.com' (Using password: NO) )

Looks like my photo site is permanently hosed.
*Bangs head repeatedly against wall.*

update II: It's always the simplest things. Not sure how it happened (but it's a typical Dreamhost type quirk) but some file permissions got changed automagically. Resetting them fixed the problem.

update III: But I am still getting 'permission denied' errors all over the place. MT cannot write to any directories. What a fucking pain in the neck.

update IV: All fixed. MT hung on one particular file in one particular entry. A wild guess: maybe the server crashed earlier today when MT was writing to the file & hosed its permissions or corrupted it.