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⚪ Internal Load Balancers ghosted their droplets for 5 hours, leaving traffic with nowhere to go. Engineering finally remembered that balancers are supposed to, you know, balance things. Crisis averted—for now. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)

⏰ Mar 05, 2026 Fixed (for now) spotted via status_rss

// The official story

Internal Load Balancers Connectivity

// Status page says

Mar 5 , 01:52 UTC Resolved - From 19:57 UTC to 01:03 UTC, customers may have experienced connectivity issues between Internal Load Balancers and their associated target droplets, which could have resulted in service disruption or traffic routing failures. Our Engineering team has confirmed full resolution of the issue, and Internal Load Balancers should now be functioning normally. If you continue to experience a

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

https://status.digitalocean.com/incidents/c7z5d74zrdhp

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