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Outage in WordPress VIP

Let’s Encrypt Service Disruption Impacting Certificate Automation

Resolved Minor
May 08, 2026 - Started 16 days ago - Lasted about 6 hours

Incident Report

Summary AI Generated

WordPress VIP experienced a service disruption affecting automatic TLS certificate management due to Let's Encrypt service issues, impacting certificate issuance and renewals for customers using this automation feature. The WordPress VIP Dashboard was affected, while existing certificates remained valid until their expiration dates. The incident lasted 6 hours with WordPress VIP monitoring the external Let's Encrypt service disruption.

Let’s Encrypt is currently seeing service disruptions which may result in failed or delayed TLS certificate issuance and renewals for customers using automatic certificate management. https://letsencrypt.status.io/pages/55957a99e800baa4470002da

Only customers requesting new certificates or renewals via Let’s Encrypt are impacted; existing certificates remain valid until expiry.

We’ll continue monitoring and share updates as they become available.

Components affected
WordPress VIP Dashboard

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