Hi,
This evening I’ve had a bit of hard time trying to get Ghost running from a Database that was improperly shut down.
When trying to start ghost, I see that it attempts to
[2023-11-17 02:11:26] INFO Ghost is running in production…
[2023-11-17 02:11:26] INFO Your site is now available on
[2023-11-17 02:11:26] INFO Ctrl+C to shut down
[2023-11-17 02:11:26] INFO Ghost server started in 0.966s
[2023-11-17 02:11:37] ERROR Invalid database host.
Invalid database host.
“Please double check your database config.”
Error ID:
500
Error Code:
ETIMEDOUT
Error: connect ETIMEDOUT
at /var/lib/ghost/versions/5.73.1/node_modules/knex-migrator/lib/database.js:50:23
at Connection._handleTimeoutError (/var/lib/ghost/versions/5.73.1/node_modules/mysql2/lib/connection.js:205:17)
at listOnTimeout (node:internal/timers:569:17)
at process.processTimers (node:internal/timers:512:7)
[2023-11-17 02:11:37] WARN Ghost is shutting down
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How was Ghost installed and configured?
Ghost is running on Docker, running the latest version. The database is running on MySql Version 8.0.35 on Ubuntu 20.04 -
What errors or information do you see in the console?
See above! 
Any help is really appreciated.
Thanks,
Josh