Major incident
Cloudways: DigitalOcean || Server Provisioning Issue
Aug 8, 2026, 21:33 UTC
started
07:11 UTC
resolved August 9, 2026
9 h 38 min
duration
Affected: DigitalOcean
Current status of Cloudways: Operational — live Cloudways status
Timeline
- Aug 8, 2026, 21:33 UTCidentifiedWe have identified an issue with our service provider, DigitalOcean, affecting their servers. Customers may experience failures when creating new servers and performing Disaster Recovery operations. The issue is limited to DigitalOcean servers. Their team is working to fix the issue and we will provide further updates as more information becomes available.
- Aug 9, 2026, 07:11 UTCresolvedThis incident has been resolved.
Updates as published by Cloudways (original).
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