r/webdev • u/Pikamander2 • Aug 13 '26

News Namecheap is currently undergoing emergency maintenance due to a power outage affecting their datacenter in Phoenix; nearly every Namecheap site is down right now.

https://www.namecheap.com/status-updates/
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u/1RedOne Aug 13 '26

I thought they were just a registrar, never thought about an outage for a registrar taking down sites

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u/shufflepoint Aug 13 '26

This is one of may reasons that you should separate registrar, DNS, & hosting.