SmugMug Outage History

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SmugMug had 6 outages in the last 2 years totaling 17h 11m of downtime — averaging 0.2 incidents per month.

There were 6 SmugMug outages since July 9, 2025 totaling 17h 11m of downtime. Each is summarised below — incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Source: https://status.smugmug.com

Notice April 11, 2026

Pages loading slowly

Detected by Pingoru
Apr 11, 2026, 03:21 AM UTC
Resolved
Apr 11, 2026, 03:51 AM UTC
Duration
29m
Affected: WebPhotos/VideosSearch
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Apr 11, 2026, 03:21 AM UTC

    Pages are loading more slowly than usual. Our engineers are on the case.

  2. investigating Apr 11, 2026, 03:48 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. investigating Apr 11, 2026, 03:51 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  4. resolved Apr 11, 2026, 03:51 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Minor February 7, 2026

Uploads processing slowly

Detected by Pingoru
Feb 07, 2026, 06:58 PM UTC
Resolved
Feb 08, 2026, 03:09 AM UTC
Duration
8h 10m
Affected: Uploads
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Feb 07, 2026, 06:58 PM UTC

    Uploads are processing slowly. Our team is working on a fix.

  2. identified Feb 07, 2026, 11:39 PM UTC

    The issue has been identified and a fix is being implemented.

  3. monitoring Feb 08, 2026, 01:37 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Feb 08, 2026, 03:09 AM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Notice October 29, 2025

Errors in Lightroom Publishing Manager settings

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 29, 2025, 08:39 AM UTC
Resolved
Oct 29, 2025, 04:04 PM UTC
Duration
7h 25m
Timeline · 2 updates
  1. investigating Oct 29, 2025, 08:39 AM UTC

    We are aware of a current problem with the SmugMug plug-in for Adobe Lightroom Classic where settings changes result in errors. We would advise against removing the plug-in as this won't resolve the issue. We’re getting to the bottom of this bug and will update with more info once we’ve made a fix.

  2. resolved Oct 29, 2025, 04:04 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical October 20, 2025

Site unavailable - AWS cloud outage

Detected by Pingoru
Oct 20, 2025, 04:39 PM UTC
Resolved
Oct 20, 2025, 04:39 PM UTC
Duration
Affected: WebPhotos/VideosSearchUploads
Timeline · 4 updates
  1. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 07:17 AM UTC

    We’re sorry! SmugMug is temporarily unavailable due to a major issue affecting Amazon Web Services, and we are working with them on a fix.

  2. investigating Oct 20, 2025, 08:23 AM UTC

    We are continuing to investigate this issue.

  3. monitoring Oct 20, 2025, 09:31 AM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  4. resolved Oct 20, 2025, 04:39 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved. Marketing pages may load inconsistently as they have a dependency that has been intermittently down.

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Major July 9, 2025

Images loading slowly

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 09, 2025, 05:34 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 09, 2025, 06:04 PM UTC
Duration
29m
Affected: Photos/Videos
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jul 09, 2025, 05:34 PM UTC

    Images are loading more slowly than usual. Our engineers are on the case.

  2. monitoring Jul 09, 2025, 05:53 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Jul 09, 2025, 06:04 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

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Critical July 9, 2025

Blip in how some pages are loading

Detected by Pingoru
Jul 09, 2025, 04:30 PM UTC
Resolved
Jul 09, 2025, 05:07 PM UTC
Duration
36m
Affected: Web
Timeline · 3 updates
  1. investigating Jul 09, 2025, 04:30 PM UTC

    We're experiencing problems with how some website pages are displaying. We're getting to the bottom of this bug and will update with more info once we've made a fix.

  2. monitoring Jul 09, 2025, 04:37 PM UTC

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. resolved Jul 09, 2025, 05:07 PM UTC

    This incident has been resolved.

Read the full incident report →