Massive Bluehost Outage Affects Thousands Of Sites

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Good thing bloggers are nice people

• Bluehost is down.

• The web hosting company started experiencing technical problems last night, following some botched maintenance.

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• Thousands of sites are down with it .

• Twitter is ablaze with bloggers from all corners of the world moaning about the outage and threatening to dump 50% Off on Bluehost for good.

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• This is not the only issue irking customers.

• Despite the fact that the outage has been going on for hours, the company is struggling to communicate with hordes of dissatisfied clients.

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• More than seven hours ago Bluehost tweeted that there was an “unexpected issue” while performing maintenance, promising to fix the problem.

• The issue has not been resolved .

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• Bluehost is stuck repeating the exact same things for hours.

• quickly turning into the joke of the day on Twitter.

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• Hundreds of new tweets are appearing by the minute and customers are poking fun

• at Bluehost’s PR damage control team, which keeps repeating that the “issue” is being resolved,

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• that a “solution is being implemented” and that the sites will be back up momentarily.

• We looked up momentarily in the dictionary, and we’re not sure Bluehost spinners know what it means.

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• The direct cost of the outage is huge.

• With thousands of clients complaining about lost revenue.

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• it is safe to assume that millions are lost by the hour.

• Even when the “issue”, which is a euphemism for “cock-up of epic proportions” is resolved, there will be hell to pay

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• . The damage to Bluehost’s already shaken reputation will be a lot harder to fix.

• This is also why our companion site Sod the Net is down, along with dozens of small niche tech sites we follow off and on.

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• This is also why our companion site Sod the Net is down.dozens of small niche tech sites we follow off and on.

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• Otherwise we wouldn’t even care. Good thing bloggers are nice people.

• they are starting to sound like a mob with pitchforks.

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