Author Archives: Andrew Nacin

Andrew Nacin 6:05 pm on September 26, 2014  

WordPress org experienced downtime due to a load…

WordPress.org experienced downtime due to a load balancer failure. The network is now up and the incident is being investigated.

18:17 UTC. A denial of service attack is currently being mitigated.

At 19:44 UTC the attack was fully mitigated and all services were restored.

Andrew Nacin 6:59 pm on September 16, 2014  

A configuration change on our load balancers triggered…

A configuration change on our load balancers triggered a redirection loop for about 8 minutes, from 18:47 to 18:55, affecting the wordpress.org domain. The service interruption has been resolved.

Andrew Nacin 7:28 pm on May 29, 2014  

We’ve resolved a brief service interruption on WordPress…

We’ve resolved a brief service interruption on WordPress.org that occurred during a hardware upgrade.

Andrew Nacin 5:06 pm on May 13, 2014  

WordPress org Trac and SVN are down for…

WordPress.org Trac and SVN are down for brief (scheduled) hardware maintenance. This affects all Trac instances and repositories except plugins.trac and plugins.svn.

17:27 UTC. Maintenance is complete.

Andrew Nacin 8:48 pm on April 10, 2014  

We’ve resolved a service interruption on WordPress.org

We’ve resolved a service interruption on WordPress.org that had been primarily affecting plugin downloads. We have re-routed traffic and all systems have returned to normal.

Andrew Nacin 11:54 pm on February 1, 2014  

We are investigating issues affecting most of the…

We are investigating issues affecting most of the WordPress.org grid, including the home page and support forums. The Codex and API servers are operating normally at this time.

00:21 UTC. All sites are now operating normally.

00:30 UTC. We are still seeing intermittent issues as we continue to mitigate a denial of service attack.

01:04 UTC. All sites are operating normally. We are continuing to monitor the situation.

Andrew Nacin 3:38 am on October 26, 2013  

We are investigating an outage on WordPress org…

We are investigating an outage on WordPress.org.

11:58 PM EDT. We have removed a problematic server from the pool. All issues are resolved. Sites are operating normally.

Andrew Nacin 12:34 am on September 21, 2013  

WordCamp org and the WordPress org Codex are…

WordCamp.org and the WordPress.org Codex are currently experiencing an outage. The systems team is investigating a possible network issue.

8:46 PM EDT. All issues are resolved. Sites are operating normally.

Andrew Nacin 12:42 pm on July 11, 2013  

The WordPress org network is experiencing some technical…

The WordPress.org network is experiencing some technical difficulties.

8:43 AM EDT. The support forums have been taken offline temporarily to help restore the full network.

9:10 AM EDT. The systems team is dealing with a data corruption problem affecting the database servers.

9:28 AM EDT. The support forums have been brought back online.

10:01 AM EDT. All lingering problems have been resolved.