Major incident

Rice University: Emergency maintenance to Rice web sites and services

Affected: Announcements

Current status of Rice University: Operational — live Rice University status

Timeline

1. May 15, 2026, 13:48 UTC
   investigating
   TS&S is investigating issues with our application load balancers, Access to some Rice web services, sites and applications may be temporarily disrupted while we switch over to redundant system.
2. May 15, 2026, 14:46 UTC
   monitoring
   The switch to the redundant application load balancer system is complete. We are continuing to monitor the situation.
3. May 18, 2026, 21:01 UTC
   resolved
   This incident has been resolved.

Updates as published by Rice University (original).