Oxahost incident
cPanel accounts could not connect to Remote MySQL Server 10
Oxahost experienced a minor incident on July 16, 2026 affecting Shared Hosting (cPanel /WHM Shared Hosting), lasting 4h 13m. The incident has been resolved; the full update timeline is below.
Affected components
Update timeline
- investigating Jul 16, 2026, 09:30 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this incident.
- investigating Jul 16, 2026, 09:36 PM UTC
We are currently investigating this incident.
- identified Jul 17, 2026, 12:24 AM UTC
We are continuing to work on a fix for this incident.
- resolved Jul 17, 2026, 01:44 AM UTC
Following rigorous efforts by our engineering team, we determined that restoring the crashed MySQL 10 instance to its previous state was not technically feasible. To ensure platform stability, we executed our DRP and successfully restored our system utilizing yesterday's backup. We recognize the severity of this outage for our customers. In accordance with our SLA commitments, we are offering one free month of service to all impacted accounts. Please contact our Support department directly to initiate your SLA credit request before next 14 days.