Discourse incident

Hardware failure causing read-only

Resolved on July 9, 2026, affecting Discourse Free, Basic, Pro, and Business Hosting and Discourse Free, Basic, Pro, and Business Hosting (Discourse Free, Basic, Pro, and Business Hosting — NA West (sea) 2) and 1 more.

resolved Jul 09, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

Around 21:40Z we experienced a hardware failure that caused sites to go into read-only mode; recovery has now been completed

Started
Jul 09, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 09, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC
Duration
–
Detected by Pingoru
Jul 09, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

Affected components

Discourse Free, Basic, Pro, and Business HostingDiscourse Free, Basic, Pro, and Business Hosting (Discourse Free, Basic, Pro, and Business Hosting — NA West (sea) 2)Discourse Enterprise HostingDiscourse Enterprise Hosting (Discourse Enterprise Hosting — NA West (sea) 2)

Update timeline

  1. resolved Jul 09, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

    Around 21:40Z we experienced a hardware failure that caused sites to go into read-only mode; recovery has now been completed

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