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🔴 Upstream disaster theater: Let's Encrypt decided to take an unscheduled vacation, leaving DigitalOcean unable to issue new certs and its database operations stuck in a perpetual loading screen. Your databases aren't creating, they're just thinking very hard about it. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
// The official story
Let's Encrypt Outage Affecting Certificate Issuance and Managed Databases Operations
// Status page says
May 8 , 20:46 UTC Identified - Our Engineering team is aware of an upstream outage with Let's Encrypt (see https://letsencrypt.status.io/) which impacts the following services: - Inability to create new Let's Encrypt certificates for Spaces, Load Balancers, and App Platform Custom Domains - Stuck or delayed creates/forks/restores on Mongo, PG, and MySQL databases. Please note that operations related to Man
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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)
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Sep 16, 2026
🟡 DigitalOcean's support portal decided to ghost users because some third-party vendor flipped the wrong switch. Can't submit tickets, can't get help—basically the digital equivalent of calling 911 and reaching a busy signal. Support team is probably on Slack wondering why their own tools don't work. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
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Sep 09, 2026
🟡 DigitalOcean's Atlanta datacenter found out what happens when you skip the electrician's calls—GPU performance taking a sad nap while redundant power limps along. Your ML models are now running at 'laptop charger plugged into a gas station outlet' speeds. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)
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Aug 19, 2026
🔴 DigitalOcean's MKC1 decided to take an unscheduled sabbatical, taking GPU workloads, Serverless Inference, and Kubernetes nodes along for the ride. Engineering is frantically flipping switches and probably refreshing their monitoring dashboards like they're slot machines. (Auto-resolved: no updates in 24h)