Mashable reported on August 3, 2013 that the biggest blog hosts that bloggers use were down Friday. The parent company, Endurance International Group was experiencing some type of issues that have not been fully disclosed on their web site .
Hostgator, Bluehost, HostMonster and JustHost were the companies experiencing outages in service. Blogging groups and Twitter were lit up as people were trying to find out more information.
Hostgator's message board , which gives updates for their sites when an outage has occurred. The board was pretty standard information of we're aware of the problem and are working on it, though it did mention it was a routing issue within their Provo Data Center. The issue is affecting shared, reseller, VPS, and dedicated servers with that data center, which is owned by Ace Data Centers. There was no estimated time of resolution, but HostGator says it is “working diligently to resolve the issue.” Some customers were still experiencing issues Friday night.
During the morning of August 2, 2013, Endurance International Group’s data center in Provo, UT experienced unexpected issues that impacted customers of Bluehost, HostGator, HostMonster and JustHost. Company websites and some phone services were affected as well.
Many of our customers’ sites are back online. Some customers may continue to experience intermittent access and slowness until services are fully restored. Customer should not experience any loss of data.- Exerpt from Endurance Response statement
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