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WordPress VIP Outage History

Every past WordPress VIP outage tracked by IsDown, with detection times, duration, and resolution details.

There were 27 WordPress VIP outages since August 2023. The 10 outages from the last 12 months are summarized below, with incident details, duration, and resolution information.

Minor May 8, 2026

May 2026: Let’s Encrypt Service Disruption Impacting Certificate Automation

Detected May 8, 2026 2:37 PM EDT · Resolved May 8, 2026 8:34 PM EDT · Duration about 6 hours

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.

Minor April 5, 2026

April 2026: AMS FileSystem

Detected Apr 5, 2026 4:16 AM EDT · Resolved Apr 5, 2026 6:30 AM EDT · Duration about 2 hours

WordPress VIP experienced a minor service incident affecting the AMS (Amsterdam, Netherlands) filesystem with impacted performance lasting 2.2 hours. The team investigated the performance degradation during this period. The incident has been resolved.