Is Bluehost down?

[joblessgraduate]

I can't even access the bluehost.com website! all my sites are down and I can't access my ftp. are they doing a major upgrade of some sort?

[areidmtm]

http://serverstatus.bluehost.com/

Server Load:

2008-12-23 11:44:30: Box under heavy load -- you may experience degraded system performance

Services:

2008-12-23 11:44:30: box25 merged into this server to provide better services for our customers.

[Early Out]

My website is down. What should I do? (http://www.bluehostforums.com/showthread.php?t=15418)

[Podium]

I can't even access the bluehost.com website! all my sites are down and I can't access my ftp. are they doing a major upgrade of some sort?

I am having same problem, can't get to my hosted site plus www.bluehost.com will not load.


General systems alerts
(updated: 2008-12-23 12:11:12) no known issues: status ok
Alerts affecting all servers
(updated: 2008-12-23 12:11:12) no known issues: status ok

If I do a tracert to my site (www.gedlingschool.co.uk) the tracert route is fine but do a tracert to www.bluehost.com comes up with :-


C:\Users\Home>tracert www.bluehost.com

Tracing route to www.bluehost.com [74.220.198.218]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 26 ms 40 ms 7 ms 10.234.184.1
2 8 ms 8 ms 6 ms nott-t2cam2-a-v611.network.virginmedia.net [82.1
3.48.61]
3 7 ms 18 ms 9 ms nott-t3core-1a-ae4-0.network.virginmedia.net [19
5.182.175.133]
4 8 ms 19 ms 29 ms nott-t3core-1b-ge-100-0.network.virginmedia.net
[80.1.79.98]
5 9 ms 19 ms 8 ms nth-bb-b-as1-0.network.virginmedia.net [213.105.
174.173]
6 11 ms 11 ms 20 ms tele-ic-1-as0-0.network.virginmedia.net [62.253.
184.2]
7 12 ms 37 ms 24 ms te4-3.mpd01.lon02.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.14
.141]
8 20 ms 16 ms 13 ms multi-use.cogentco.com [130.117.0.253]
9 21 ms 36 ms 52 ms te8-7.ccr01.ams03.atlas.cogentco.com [130.117.0.
197]
10 102 ms 100 ms 102 ms te9-1.mpd01.ymq02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.6.1
41]
11 107 ms 143 ms 108 ms te2-4.mpd01.yyz02.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.2
13]
12 115 ms 115 ms 125 ms te7-8.mpd01.ord01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.2.1
61]
13 128 ms 127 ms 128 ms te9-8.mpd01.mci01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.7.1
38]
14 140 ms 136 ms 136 ms te4-4.mpd01.den01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.24.
81]
15 150 ms 167 ms 149 ms te4-2.ccr01.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com [154.54.0.4
2]
16 151 ms 148 ms 150 ms vl3804.na31.b020767-1.slc01.atlas.cogentco.com [
38.20.34.182]
17 151 ms 164 ms 178 ms 38.104.174.30
18 * * * Request timed out.
19 * * * Request timed out.
20 * * * Request timed out.
21 * * * Request timed out.
22 * * * Request timed out.
23 * * * Request timed out.
24 * * * Request timed out.
25 * * * Request timed out.


I would submit a service ticket but I cannot get to the website to do it.

[areidmtm]

Looks like bluehost.com is back up. Any further problems will have to be brought to bluehost support.