title: MYSQL error, cannot start service and mysql.sock not found
body: <p>Yesterday, my website crashed. Or, what appears to be a crash.</p>
  
  <p>My host (JustHost) have disclosed that it was a SAN problem and have been rebuilding it. It's hard to get anymore information out of them because they are playing their cards very close to their chest for some reason. </p>
  
  <p>I have suffered almost 24 hours downtime in 2 days and I'm getting fed up.</p>
  
  <p>The error I am receiving on the frontend of the website is:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Database connection error (2): Could not connect to MySQL.Database     connection error (2): Could not connect to MySQL.
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Trying to access my phpMyadmin from cPanel gives me the following error:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JbqBf.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/JbqBf.png" alt="enter image description here"></a> </p>
  
  <p>Accessing SSH and trying to start the mysql service via putty I get:</p>
  
  <pre><code>Starting MySQL. ERROR! The server quit without updating PID file (/var/lib/mysql        /mysqld.pid).
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Can anyone please help me resolve this issue as my host is rather useless!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks!</p>