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WordPress sites are down — GoDaddy Managed

WordPress sites are down — GoDaddy Managed

Sites hosted on GoDaddy’s Managed WordPress service were down Thursday evening.

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[Update: the problem was resolved on Thursday, but I’m hearing from other GoDaddy clients regarding intermittent issues.]

GoDaddy experienced issues with its hosting platform Thursday evening. Sites that use its Managed WordPress products were down as of the time of posting. The issue appears to have begun around 3:45 PM PDT today and was resolved arond 5 pm PDT.

The GoDaddy system status page did not reflect the outage but GoDaddy confirmed the issue via its Twitter account. It did not offer an expected time to restore services.

In November 2020, GoDaddy faced a widespread outage that impacted all of its front end services and websites. It lasted regarding four hours.

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