Blindsided by error

[alex8675]

I've been running v1.3.2 for about 6 months without a single problem...then tonight I tried to access my site to upload some new pictures and get the following error:

Coppermine critical error:
Unable to connect to database !

MySQL said: Can't connect to MySQL server on 'localhost' (10061)

To my knowledge, nothing has changed on the server or my website...how do I figure out what is causing the error and how do I resolve???  I've got more than 1,000 photos organized on my website and really hate to lose everything!!!

Please help!!!

Thanks,

Alex8675

[Nibbler]

You'd have to ask your host, the database appears to have stopped running.