DigitalOcean outage history and postmortems
Cloud and hosting · Broomfield, US · 28 incidents in 90 days · 99.97% implied uptime · last 8d ago
Incidents
114 on fileAbout DigitalOcean
DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. is an American multinational technology company and cloud service provider. The company is headquartered in Broomfield, Colorado, US, with 15 globally distributed data centers.
The last year, day by day
Downtime, added up
DigitalOcean: 38m weighted downtime in range, category median 43m.
28 incidents, 4 major or critical, 9d 9h of incident time (2d 9h major or critical, 6d 23h partial), longest 2d 2h, implied uptime 99.97%, between Jun 28, 2026 and Sep 25, 2026.
Stated causes
103 incidents with no cause stated.
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Questions
Is DigitalOcean down right now?
Check DigitalOcean's own status page at https://status.digitalocean.com for the live state. This page shows DigitalOcean's incident history from that page; the most recent incident started 2026-09-16: "Support Portal Service Disruption".
How often does DigitalOcean have outages?
DigitalOcean posted 29 incidents in the last 90 days and 114 in the last year, 4 of them major or critical in the last 90 days. The median incident lasted 4h 2m.
When was DigitalOcean's last major outage?
2026-08-24: "Cloud Control Panel and API", lasting 25h 50m.
What usually causes DigitalOcean incidents?
Where DigitalOcean explained the cause, the most common was network (3 incidents). Most status updates do not name a cause.
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