Bluehost, HostGator and HostMonster Go Down – What Are The Best Blog Hosting Alternatives?

Restored from the Empower Network archive (2011–2017), lightly edited to meet our current advertising standards. Views are the original author’s.

The following is originally from Mashable.com ()

If you host your website on Bluehost, HostMonster or HostGator, your site is probably down or experiencing issues.

The three hosting brands are all divisions of Endurance International Group. The outage appears to be related to server maintenance at the Provo, Utah, data center.

According to the Bluehost and HostMonster Twitter accounts, that maintenance caused additional problems.

Although HostGator and Bluehost (two brands that used to operate under the same company) do not have a dedicated page setup for system status, HostGator has created a forum thread providing information on the system outage.

Bluehost and HostMonster report that their phones are overloaded with calls and that the company is doing everything it can to get its sites back online.

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So if All The Major Hosting Services Are Down….

How Is THIS Blog Still Running Strong?

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