Outage report · Major outage

Cloudways outage on Oct 21, 2026

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SeverityMajor outage
StartedOct 21, 2026, 09:16UTC
ResolvedOct 23, 2026, 12:38UTC
Duration2d 3h

What happened

Cloudways reported a major outage starting Oct 21, 2026, 09:16 UTC, affecting Cloudways Cloud Platform Console, Cloudways Cloud Platform Service. It was marked resolved at Oct 23, 2026, 12:38 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 2d 3h from first report to resolution.
  • Cloudways had reported 4 other partial or major outages in the 90 days before it.
  • 12 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from Cloudways

This incident has been resolved.

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What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of Cloudways started after this incident, so this report is based on Cloudways's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

Cloudways's overall reliability

32.0/100

Cloudways has a reliability score of 32.0/100, with 93.40% effective uptime and 12 incidents over the last 90 days.

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