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It is denying your access to the database. check that your username and password are correct. Your provider might be doing a maintenance on your server
SQL Error : 1044 Access denied for user: 'dbo163975352@%' to database 'db163975352'
either the username or password are wrong for the database user to connect tot he database or the user is not assigned to the database and thus does not have permissions yo access the database
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As Stevemaury already asked:
Post the contents of your config.php file here (without password).
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You need to check with your host that the dbhost, dbuser and dbname are all correct and that the dbuser has full permissions on the database. You also need to verify that the password is correct.
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