What is My website is down?
The short answer
When a website is down, the usual causes are an expired domain, a DNS mistake, a hosting outage, an expired certificate or a broken deploy, checked in that order.
What people say: “site not loading”, “website not working”.
My website is down, explained
Check whether the domain still resolves, whether the host reports an incident, and roll back the last deploy if the problem started after a change.
Questions people ask about My website is down
What is My website is down?
When a website is down, the usual causes are an expired domain, a DNS mistake, a hosting outage, an expired certificate or a broken deploy, checked in that order.
Related terms
Uptime is the share of time a website is online and working; monitoring services check it continuously and alert when it goes down.
DNSDNS is the internet's address book: it translates a domain name like example.com into the IP address of the server that hosts the site.
RollbackA rollback restores a website to a previous working version after a bad release.
SSL/TLS certificateAn SSL/TLS certificate proves a site's identity and enables HTTPS encryption; modern hosts issue and renew them automatically and free.
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