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⚪ BLR1 region went full Sleeping Beauty from 11:59-13:02 UTC, ghosting Monitoring, App Platform, Databases, Functions, Load Balancers, Spaces, and the control panel. Users got the classic combo of latency, dropped connections, and errors—basically a networking horror movie where the power came back before anyone got to the climax. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Oct 03, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

A Network Disruption in BLR1 Region Impacted Multiple Products (Resolved)

// Status page says

Oct 3 , 14:51 UTC Resolved - From 11:59 UTC to 13:02 UTC on October 3, 2026, a networking disruption in our BLR1 region affected multiple products, including Monitoring, App Platform, Managed Databases, Functions, Load Balancers, Spaces, and the Cloud Control Panel. During this period, some users experienced degraded connectivity, increased latency, or intermittent errors when accessing resources in the region. Multiple n

🔗 Official status page (for the PR-approved version)

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/6z6dt3t1bhb9

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