{"id":2368,"date":"2013-08-03T02:49:56","date_gmt":"2013-08-03T08:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/?p=2368"},"modified":"2026-01-14T06:05:55","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T06:05:55","slug":"network-issues-resolved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/","title":{"rendered":"Network Issues Resolved"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Our network recently experienced intermittent outages that may have affected access to your website and account services.<br>The Bluehost team and I are truly sorry for any inconvenience this caused you. We take the reliability of our hosting seriously and I felt you deserved an update.<br>On August 2, 2013, during routine hardware maintenance which doesn&#8217;t typically affect customers, we experienced unexpected network issues. Hardware failures, including our core routers, cascaded into further issues causing downtime and instability. Our response team jumped into action and worked tirelessly alongside hardware vendors to restore connectivity as quickly as possible.<br>Bluehost is committed to delivering a service you can count on. Now that operations are back to normal, our engineers are conducting a thorough review of this incident and are already beginning to implement new safeguards to make our network better.<br>Again, please accept our apologies and thank you for your continued support.<br>Dan Handy<br>CEO, Bluehost.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our network recently experienced intermittent outages that may have affected access to your website and account services.The Bluehost team and I are truly sorry for any inconvenience this caused you. We take the reliability of our hosting seriously and I felt you deserved an update.On August 2, 2013, during routine hardware maintenance which doesn&#8217;t typically [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":240661,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_yoast_wpseo_title":"Network Issues Resolved","_yoast_wpseo_metadesc":"","inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[3335,3336],"ppma_author":[608],"class_list":["post-2368","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-updates","tag-small-business","tag-startups"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Network Issues Resolved<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Network Issues Resolved\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Our network recently experienced intermittent outages that may have affected access to your website and account services.The Bluehost team and I are truly sorry for any inconvenience this caused you. We take the reliability of our hosting seriously and I felt you deserved an update.On August 2, 2013, during routine hardware maintenance which doesn&#8217;t typically [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Bluehost Blog\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bluehost\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2013-08-03T08:49:56+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2026-01-14T06:05:55+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wondersuite-1.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1199\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"618\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Content Team\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@bluehost\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@bluehost\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Content Team\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Content Team\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e6b0afebe4a651298b6c3514000fe76e\"},\"headline\":\"Network Issues Resolved\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-08-03T08:49:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-14T06:05:55+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/\"},\"wordCount\":156,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/default-bh.png\",\"keywords\":[\"Small Business\",\"Startups\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Bluehost Updates\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/\",\"name\":\"Network Issues Resolved\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/default-bh.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2013-08-03T08:49:56+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2026-01-14T06:05:55+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/default-bh.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/default-bh.png\",\"width\":1200,\"height\":629},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Bluehost Updates\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/category\/updates\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":3,\"name\":\"Network Issues Resolved\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/\",\"name\":\"Bluehost\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Bluehost\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bluehost-logo.svg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bluehost-logo.svg\",\"width\":136,\"height\":24,\"caption\":\"Bluehost\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bluehost\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/bluehost\",\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bluehost-com\/\",\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bluehost\",\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bluehost\"],\"description\":\"Bluehost is a leading web hosting provider empowering millions of websites worldwide. \\u2028Discover how Bluehost's expertise, reliability, and innovation can help you achieve your online goals.\",\"telephone\":\"+1-888-401-4678\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e6b0afebe4a651298b6c3514000fe76e\",\"name\":\"Content Team\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/8512527e1382fa7aed0df8e73d3a21b3\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9f4eb3012c36c524e4a8322ecef894123656c5765ee9849402ff4cb9613c731?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9f4eb3012c36c524e4a8322ecef894123656c5765ee9849402ff4cb9613c731?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Content Team\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/author\/content_admin\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Network Issues Resolved","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Network Issues Resolved","og_description":"Our network recently experienced intermittent outages that may have affected access to your website and account services.The Bluehost team and I are truly sorry for any inconvenience this caused you. We take the reliability of our hosting seriously and I felt you deserved an update.On August 2, 2013, during routine hardware maintenance which doesn&#8217;t typically [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/","og_site_name":"Bluehost Blog","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bluehost\/","article_published_time":"2013-08-03T08:49:56+00:00","article_modified_time":"2026-01-14T06:05:55+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1199,"height":618,"url":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/wondersuite-1.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Content Team","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@bluehost","twitter_site":"@bluehost","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Content Team","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/"},"author":{"name":"Content Team","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e6b0afebe4a651298b6c3514000fe76e"},"headline":"Network Issues Resolved","datePublished":"2013-08-03T08:49:56+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-14T06:05:55+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/"},"wordCount":156,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/default-bh.png","keywords":["Small Business","Startups"],"articleSection":["Bluehost Updates"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/","name":"Network Issues Resolved","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/default-bh.png","datePublished":"2013-08-03T08:49:56+00:00","dateModified":"2026-01-14T06:05:55+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/default-bh.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/default-bh.png","width":1200,"height":629},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/network-issues-resolved\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Bluehost Updates","item":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/category\/updates\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"name":"Network Issues Resolved"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/","name":"Bluehost","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#organization","name":"Bluehost","url":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bluehost-logo.svg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/bluehost-logo.svg","width":136,"height":24,"caption":"Bluehost"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/bluehost\/","https:\/\/x.com\/bluehost","https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/company\/bluehost-com\/","https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/bluehost","https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Bluehost"],"description":"Bluehost is a leading web hosting provider empowering millions of websites worldwide. \u2028Discover how Bluehost's expertise, reliability, and innovation can help you achieve your online goals.","telephone":"+1-888-401-4678"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/e6b0afebe4a651298b6c3514000fe76e","name":"Content Team","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/8512527e1382fa7aed0df8e73d3a21b3","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9f4eb3012c36c524e4a8322ecef894123656c5765ee9849402ff4cb9613c731?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9f4eb3012c36c524e4a8322ecef894123656c5765ee9849402ff4cb9613c731?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Content Team"},"url":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/author\/content_admin\/"}]}},"authors":[{"term_id":608,"user_id":9,"is_guest":0,"slug":"content_admin","display_name":"Content Team","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/b9f4eb3012c36c524e4a8322ecef894123656c5765ee9849402ff4cb9613c731?s=96&d=mm&r=g","0":null,"1":"","2":"","3":"","4":"","5":"","6":"","7":"","8":"","9":"","10":"","11":"","12":"","13":"","14":"","15":""}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2368"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":261592,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2368\/revisions\/261592"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2368"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bluehost.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=2368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}