Namecheap outage caused by cooling system failure at Phoenix data center

Namecheap outage caused by cooling system failure at Phoenix data center(twitter.com)

6 points by slhck 9 days ago | 7 comments

slhck 9 days ago |

Apparently Namecheap has been down for some time now, as their hosting provider in Phoenix is having cooling issues: https://status.phoenixnap.com/

Edit: https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/ is indeed on their status page, previous post said it had nothing.

mtmail 9 days ago | |

The status page isn't sorted well. The message is at https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/namecheap-com-and-h...

slhck 9 days ago | | |

Thanks, that was really easy to miss, you'd think they'd put that on top.

KomoD 9 days ago | |

> You cannot access this site because the owner has reached their plan limits. Check back later once traffic has gone down.

Uh-oh, lol.

KomoD 9 days ago |

They host everything at just one datacenter?

Here's a post that the CEO just made: https://xcancel.com/NamecheapCEO/status/2087931259389464611#...

slhck 9 days ago | |

Wow, only one physical location, no failover for a company with that footprint? I guess I'll look into migrating our DNS then.

IAmGraydon 9 days ago | | |

Yeah I've had all my personal project domains at Namecheap for a very long time but have been meaning to move over to CloudFlare. Guess I should get on that...