Information Technology Services

George Mason Website Outages

Outage category: Website

Location: All locations

Status: Open

Resolved Alert:

Initial Symptoms

Users were unable to load WPEngine-hosted WordPress websites or experienced slow or intermittent access to these websites during this time period.

Root Cause Analysis

Cause

The web host had technical issues which resulted in not enough server resources available to support normal website operations.

Resolution

Our WPEngine-hosted websites were split into two different accounts so that more resources were available to each environment.

Prevention

Same as resolution. We expect that these changes will alleviate this problem. We haven’t experienced similar issues or slowness since this change was made.