'We failed you today': Namecheap down for several hours after a data center cooling failure, leaving customers…
- Namecheap suffers major outage, with services unavailable for hours
- "Cooling issues" at Phoenix data center blamed for outage
- The issue took around 15 hours to fully repair, with customers raging
Top hosting provider Namecheap suffered a significant outage which led to websites across the globe seeing problems for several hours.
The web hosting company saw issues after what Namecheap called "a failure of cooling systems" at its data center in Phoenix, leaving the company's hosting plans, EasyWP, DNS and email clients all offline.
The issue took around 15 hours to fully repair, with users also unable to access Namecheap services, email, accounts and more during that time.
Namecheap outage
Namecheap detailed the outage in a lengthy update post on its status page, keeping users informed throughout the issue.
Problems first surfaced around 12pm EDT, when two of the four chillers at the data center were brought back online, however it...
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