Flywheel Outage History

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Pingoru has recorded 3 incidents for Flywheel: 3 in the last 12 months and 3 in the last 90 days.

Source: status.getflywheel.com

3incidents recorded
3last 12 months
3last 90 days
4 hourstypical duration

Incidents, newest first

Minor October 21, 2026 PHP Security Update – Flywheel platform

Started Oct 21, 2026, 02:31 PM UTC· resolved Oct 21, 2026, 02:31 PM UTC

  1. resolved Oct 21, 2026, 02:31 PM UTC

    As widely reported, two critical vulnerabilities were recently identified in PHP, the core programming language powering WordPress. Our security teams have been actively monitoring the situation and implementing several mitigating actions. As of 8:40 AM CDT (13:40 UTC) today, PHP has begun to release patches and other mitigating steps to resolve the vulnerabilities. Our team is working to roll out these updates across all customer platforms as soon as possible. In addition, we have already deployed protective mitigations at the CDN layer via Cloudflare and Fastly. We will share further updates as deployment progresses.

  2. resolved Oct 21, 2026, 02:31 PM UTC

    Update

  3. monitoring Oct 21, 2026, 05:30 PM UTC

    We are currently deploying patches for the Flywheel platform. Protective mitigations are still active at the CDN layer and at the host layer. Further updates will be provided as they are available.

  4. monitoring Oct 21, 2026, 07:00 PM UTC

    WP Engine has finished the deployment of security patches for two critical PHP vulnerabilities on the Flywheel platform. The patch has been applied to your PHP version, and no action is needed from you. If you have any additional questions, please reach out to your support team.

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Minor October 20, 2026 GCP europe-west2 Region Experiencing Degraded Availability 11h 12m Flywheel platform

Started Oct 20, 2026, 07:14 AM UTC· resolved Oct 20, 2026, 06:26 PM UTC

  1. monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 05:23 AM UTC

    Our vendor has identified the service degradation affecting a subset of our customer in the EU region as caused by a power event. They are working to restore services and we will continue to update as more information becomes available.

  2. scheduled Oct 20, 2026, 07:14 AM UTC

    We have received reports of some installs experiencing 522 errors at this time. Our internal teams are currently investigating.

  3. monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 08:41 AM UTC

    We are currently working with our impacted vendor partner who is investigating downtime and 522 errors for a subset of customers in the EU region. Updates will follow when available.

  4. monitoring Oct 20, 2026, 10:34 AM UTC

    We are still working with our impacted vendor who is continuing to investigate cause of downtime for a subset of our customers in the EU region. For direct vendor updates please see: https://status.cloud.google.com/incidents/Xs2XTHzAVC9YnafnPyzj

  5. resolved Oct 20, 2026, 06:26 PM UTC

    Our vendor has successfully restored their services affected by recent power outage. We have seen a full recovery of the subset of sites within the EU region post-vendor service restoration.

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Minor August 18, 2026 Subset of sites are experiencing connectivity issues 4m Flywheel platform

Started Aug 18, 2026, 06:48 PM UTC· resolved Aug 18, 2026, 06:52 PM UTC

  1. investigating Aug 18, 2026, 06:48 PM UTC

    We are aware of an issue impacting some Flywheel sites. Affected sites may intermittently return a 503 status code. We are currently investigating.

  2. resolved Aug 18, 2026, 06:52 PM UTC

    We have identified the root issue and applied a fix.

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