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Hosting provider Namecheap is down after data center cooling failure
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Namecheap suffered an outage after a cooling-system failure at its PhoenixNAP data center, leaving its website, hosting plans, EasyWP, DNS and email services unavailable.
Engineers with sites or applications hosted on Namecheap lost access to web, DNS and email services, disrupting user traffic and communications. The incident highlights how environmental failures in a single data center can cascade across multiple hosted services, emphasizing the need for redundancy and monitoring.
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A cooling-system failure at Namecheap's PhoenixNAP data center triggered an outage of its services.
Hosting plans, EasyWP, DNS and email clients were impacted, with some services unreachable and others delayed.
CEO Hillan Klein said restoration could begin around 3:00 to 3:30 pm ET as temperatures improve.
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