Outage report · Partial outage

WP Engine outage on Sep 21, 2026

Intermittent Performance Degradation for some servers.

SeverityPartial outage
StartedSep 21, 2026, 16:54UTC
ResolvedSep 21, 2026, 20:32UTC
Duration3h 38m

What happened

WP Engine reported a partial outage starting Sep 21, 2026, 16:54 UTC, affecting North America. It was marked resolved at Sep 21, 2026, 20:32 UTC.

  • The incident lasted 3h 38m from first report to resolution.
  • WP Engine had reported 1 other partial or major outage in the 90 days before it.
  • 7 other vendors we track reported a significant incident within 12 hours of it.

Latest update from WP Engine

Issues with intermittent performance degradation for some hardwares have been resolved. Thank you for being patience with us during this time.

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What our independent monitoring saw

Our independent monitoring of WP Engine started after this incident, so this report is based on WP Engine's status page.

Other outages around the same time

Significant incidents other vendors reported within 12 hours of this one.

WP Engine's overall reliability

30.5/100

WP Engine has a reliability score of 30.5/100, with 95.37% effective uptime and 20 incidents over the last 90 days.

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