Cloudways incident

DigitalOcean || Server Provisioning Issue

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Cloudways experienced a major incident on August 8, 2026 affecting DigitalOcean, lasting 9h 37m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.

Started
Aug 08, 2026, 09:33 PM UTC
Resolved
Aug 09, 2026, 07:11 AM UTC
Duration
9h 37m
Detected by Pingoru
Aug 08, 2026, 09:33 PM UTC

Affected components

DigitalOcean

Update timeline

  1. identified Aug 08, 2026, 09:33 PM UTC

    We have identified an issue with our service provider, DigitalOcean, affecting their servers. Customers may experience failures when creating new servers and performing Disaster Recovery operations. The issue is limited to DigitalOcean servers. Their team is working to fix the issue and we will provide further updates as more information becomes available.

  2. resolved Aug 09, 2026, 07:11 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.