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Outage in Nexcess

GitHub Peformance Impact

Resolved Minor
August 17, 2026 - Started 5 days ago - Lasted 1 day
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Summary AI Generated

GitHub experienced degraded performance that impacted Nexcess customers' ability to create new Magento, WordPress, and WooCommerce websites, as well as some dedicated cloud plans through the Nexcess Customer Portal. The outage stemmed from GitHub-side issues affecting Pull Requests, Actions, Webhooks, and API requests, among other services. The incident lasted approximately 28.7 hours before being fully resolved.

GitHub is reporting degraded performance via their status page this morning: https://www.githubstatus.com/ Per the page, this problem may be affecting Pull Requests, Issues, Copilot, Actions, Webhooks, and API requests, among other services. Customers should follow the GitHub status page for the latest information.
Components affected
Nexcess Customer Portal

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RESOLVED 3 days ago - at 08/18/2026 08:16PM

This incident has been resolved.

INVESTIGATING 5 days ago - at 08/17/2026 04:27PM

This issue is currently affecting the ability to create new Magento, Wordpress, and WooCommerce websites and some dedicated cloud plans through the Nexcess customer portal. Nexcess Engineering and Development teams are currently reviewing the service impact and evaluating options to return service as quickly as possible. We will provide further updates as soon as they are available.

We appreciate your patience as our team works to resolve this issue. If you have further questions or concerns, please contact us at support@nexcess.net or via Live Chat.

IDENTIFIED 5 days ago - at 08/17/2026 03:35PM

GitHub is reporting degraded performance via their status page this morning:
https://www.githubstatus.com/

Per the page, this problem may be affecting Pull Requests, Issues, Copilot, Actions, Webhooks, and API requests, among other services. Customers should follow the GitHub status page for the latest information.

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