Although it&#39;s a shame the site has been down for so long and no one thinks its a matter of urgency to correct it. Or if there&#39;s a problem correcting it at least putting a plain HTML page explaining the issue.<div><br>
</div><div>In fact the global error handler (of course assuming there is one!) should, depending on the severity of the error, send a SMS to the system administrator for action and immediately create a case in the CRM  (of course assuming there is one!)  to the effect that the system is down and start tracking the case for reporting: site outages per month, resolution times, etc</div>
<div><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:40 PM, Peter Karunyu <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pkarunyu@gmail.com">pkarunyu@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Ouch! At least its a good error. The developer had the good sense to put an exit after the connection. Good. Next step, a custom page to show when this error is encountered. <br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div>
<div class="h5">On Fri, May 22, 2009 at 5:31 PM, Peter Muchemi <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:pmuchemi@gmail.com" target="_blank">pmuchemi@gmail.com</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left:1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204);margin:0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><a href="http://www.water.go.ke" target="_blank">www.water.go.ke</a> gives a &quot;Database Error: Unable to connect to the database:Could not connect to MySQL&quot; error!<br clear="all">

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