AlphaVPS incident
Hardware Maintenance in Progress: Sofia Storage Nodes
AlphaVPS experienced a notice incident on July 30, 2026 affecting Storage KVM Services in Sofia, lasting 21d 21h. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- identified Jul 30, 2026, 12:50 PM UTC
We have begun preemptive hardware maintenance on the following nodes: SOFSTORAGE01 SOFSTORAGE06 SOFSTORAGE07 VPS instances hosted on the affected nodes may experience a temporary interruption. The expected downtime is approximately 15 to 30 minutes per VPS. Our team is monitoring the maintenance closely and will provide further updates as the work progresses.
- identified Jul 30, 2026, 01:13 PM UTC
We're beginning work on SOFSTORAGE07. VMs have been gracefully shutdown and will be booted back up shortly.
- identified Jul 30, 2026, 01:25 PM UTC
We have completed the work on SOFSTORAGE07 and virtual machines are booting back up. We're moving forward with SOFSTORAGE01, virtual machines are being shutdown and maintenance begins.
- identified Jul 30, 2026, 02:00 PM UTC
We have completed the work on SOFSTORAGE01 and virtual machines are booting back up. We're moving forward with SOFSTORAGE06, virtual machines are being shutdown and maintenance begins.
- identified Jul 31, 2026, 10:55 AM UTC
SOFSTORAGE06 maintenance is done and all VMs are booting up.
- resolved Aug 21, 2026, 11:11 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.