Django Webfaction 'Timeout when reading response headers from daemon process'

Question

My Django app on my production server hosted on Webfaction was working fine until I just tried to restart it after pushing a change to the settings.py file. I ran

Answer 1

Here is how I was able to find the root cause of my issue.

python manage.py showmigrations

My app could not reach the database server, so it would eventually time out. Running manage.py I could see see the error message on the console.