Fasthosts experienced a major incident on October 28, 2025 affecting Webhosting, lasting 2h 11m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Webhosting
Update timeline
- investigating Oct 28, 2025, 05:15 AM UTC
We are currently investigating an issue that has caused some Windows sites to be offline.
- investigating Oct 28, 2025, 06:12 AM UTC
Investigation is still ongoing, it appears to be affecting Windows Hosted sites connecting to a MySQL database.
- monitoring Oct 28, 2025, 06:48 AM UTC
The issue has been identified and Sites are now connecting to MySql databases. We are monitoring the situation.
- monitoring Oct 28, 2025, 07:07 AM UTC
We are continuing to monitor for any further issues.
- resolved Oct 28, 2025, 07:27 AM UTC
This incident has been resolved.