Cloudways down? The answer is at the top of this page. Appys checks Cloudways’s official status page as you arrive, so what you see is never more than a few minutes old. Below is what to check on your side, what to do while you wait, and how to hear when it’s fixed.
Cloudways down for everyone, or just you?
If the status above says Cloudways is working normally but it isn’t working for you, the problem is most likely closer to home. Press Is it just me? at the top of the page: your own device and our server both try to reach cloudways.com, and the answer tells you which side the problem is on.
Then try these quick checks:
- Open Cloudways on another network, such as mobile data instead of Wi-Fi.
- Try a different browser or a private window, to rule out an old cache or a browser extension.
- Restart your router if lots of websites are slow, not just this one.
- Make sure your device’s date and time are set automatically: a wrong clock can stop secure connections.
- Check your live website from another network: it may still be up even if the editor or dashboard isn’t.
Cloudways down? What to do while you wait
- Check which part is affected. Cloudways splits its status into 5 parts, listed under What Cloudways reports on above, so a problem in one may not touch the ones you use.
- Hold off on publishing changes until it’s fixed, so nothing goes live half-finished.
- Your site, domain and email can be affected separately, so check each one.
- If your site is down, tell customers through your social accounts.
- Keep this page open: the status changes by itself when Cloudways posts the fix, so there’s no need to keep refreshing.
If it drags on and the work can’t wait, the alternatives near the top of this page are other web hosts that are working right now.
Why apps like Cloudways go down
Website builders and hosts usually go down after updates, during attacks that flood their servers, or when the network or data centre behind them has problems. Even big outages are often partial, hitting one feature, one region or one group of users rather than everyone. That’s why Cloudways can work fine for you while its status page reports a problem, or the other way round.
How Appys checks Cloudways
Every status on this page comes from Cloudways’s official status page, where Cloudways’s own team posts problems and fixes. Its status page covers 5 parts: Cloudways Home, Cloudways Cloud Platform Console, Cloudways Cloud Platform Service, Cloudways Support and Cloudways API. Appys reads it whenever someone opens this page and regularly in between, keeps a record of every problem it posts and works out the 90-day uptime from that record. We never change what Cloudways says, and nobody can pay to change a status or a record.
A quiet status page doesn’t always mean nothing is wrong: some companies post small problems late, or not at all. That’s why this page also shows how openly Cloudways reports its problems.
How long do Cloudways outages last?
It depends on what broke. Small problems are often fixed within the hour, while a big outage can take most of a day. The history above lists every problem Cloudways has posted recently, when each one started and how long it took to fix, so you can see what’s normal for Cloudways rather than guessing. While a problem is open, the latest update from Cloudways is shown at the top of this page.
About Cloudways
Managed cloud hosting for WordPress and other sites, on servers from several clouds.
Cloudways is made by DigitalOcean. On Appys it’s listed under Website builders and hosting, with the other web hosts we follow.
Hear when Cloudways is back
Send one email to [email protected] with Watch Cloudways in the subject and we’ll email you when Cloudways reports a major outage, and again when it’s fixed. You can also follow its problems in a feed reader or a Slack channel, or add a live badge to your own site; both are explained above.
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