IT Outage Notifications Archive

1:50pm UPDATE – The issue affecting the WordPress hosting environment has been resolved. The technical teams continue to monitor the sites and are investigating the root cause.

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On or about 1:25pm EST, February 24, 2023 the UMS WordPress hosting environment was experiencing intermittent issues. This affects the following sites and their sub-sites:

• maine.edu
• uma.edu
• umf.maine.edu
• usm.maine.edu
• mainelaw.maine.edu
• machias.maine.edu

Technicians are working to resolve this issue. We expect to be able to give another update by 2:00pm ET

We are currently experiencing an outage on the main WordPress server, which means the following sites are down:

www.uma.edu
www.umf.maine.edu
usm.maine.edu
machias.edu
www.maine.edu
mainelaw.maine.edu

Technical staff are investigating the issue.

December 10, 2022 – 8 a.m. – 1:30 p.m.

Update @ 2 p.m. – Google reports that the backlog of messages has been processed an all services are expected to be operating normally. If you are still experience issues, please contact the UMS:IT Help Desk.

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Update @ 12:40 p.m. – Google reports email delivery is no longer failing. However, they are now working through the backlog of undelivered messages and expect all messages to be delivered in the next few hours.

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We have received several reports of delays sending and receiving emails from external locations.

Google recently acknowledged the issue on their Service Status Dashboard.

UMS:IT Technical staff will be monitoring the issue, but the most up to date status can be found at:

https://www.google.com/appsstatus/dashboard/incidents/fUoeMVUu4mVDY4Wyg8Cf