Re: HostGator down for 8+ hours

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Author: Keith Smith
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Subject: Re: HostGator down for 8+ hours

I was told it was a kernel roll out. Makes sense since I could not see
any of my websites. One was giving a server 502 error. At any rate I'd
like to hear the inside scoop.


On 2014-10-29 12:26, Sesso wrote:
> They were probably updating cPanel via automatic updates also. Version
> 11.46.0.9 came out. This means that I have testing to do at work
> today. :/
>
> Jason
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
>> On Oct 29, 2014, at 9:10 AM, Keith Smith <>
>> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Last night at about 1:30 HostGator rolled out a Kernel update that
>> brought most of their servers to their knees. They are now just
>> finishing the mop up. It took them about 8 hours to fix the issue.
>> Of course HostGator is being tight lipped on exactly what happened and
>> who was effected. It appears all reseller accounts were effected and
>> possibly their retail hosting accounts as well.
>>
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>> Keith Smith
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