Ongoing maintenance

One of WPhost’s infrastructure providers will be performing routine maintenance to a layer of WPhost’s Cloud Platform. Sites should experience little to no visitor interruption; however, in the event that there is an interruption, a 503 error would be returned temporarily.

MySQL 5.7 is reaching its end-of-life status on our platform. WordPress relies on the widely-used MySQL database to store and manage your website's data. Updating to the most current version of MySQL ensures that your site is optimised for the future and protected against a greater number of threats.

During the upgrade, your sites will be put in a maintenance mode to ensure no corruption of data.

To minimise possible disruptions to your sites after updating to MySQL 8.0, we recommend that y...

We will be performing server maintenance (kernel updates) on our Enterprise platform.

Sites will be unavailable for 10 to 15 minutes during the maintenance window.

We don't expect any issues, but please let our support team know if your sites experience anything unexpected after maintenance is complete.