Bluehost is down worldwide

Bluehost servers offline

Hosting company Bluehost appears to be offline this afternoon after its servers became unresponsive to requests. The outage has affected websites and emails for thousands of customers.

So far there has been no official word from Bluehost.com but potential explanations could include a power outage affecting a datacenter, or a major cyber attack.

Business owners with entertainment websites have been unable to use the service in the past 10 minutes and the main webpage for the company was also down.

This is a developing story...

Update : No word yet from Bluehost or Hostmonster about the New Years Eve outage

Quicknote : Bluehost servers went down at approximately 1.37PM (EST)

Update : Bluehost have just issued a tweet about the outage:

FYI we're experiencing a temporary network issue with our data center that's affecting some customers. If that's you stay tuned for updates!

— Bluehost (@bluehost) December 31, 2013

Update 2.23PM

@joystutts Were working as fast as we can, no ETA yet but we know you need it up fast. Stay tuned!

— help.bluehost.com (@bluehostsupport) December 31, 2013

Update 3.33pm

@haskellcollect We have all hands on deck to fix the issue and keep customers informed. Stay tuned for updates!

— Bluehost (@bluehost) December 31, 2013

What people are saying about the Bluehost server outage

@bluehost Hello? Anyone in there? Can you update your customers on the outage?

— Robert (@BushwackCA) December 31, 2013

@bluehostsupport my server is not working. http://t.co/ckaszcXH0u please help, also bluehost is out

— Andres Sanchez (@Mancha2096) December 31, 2013

@bluehost are you guys down? can't get into http://t.co/d3wWIODM3O

— Mark Olivito (@MarkOlivito) December 31, 2013

@bluehost @bluehostsupport Appears the trace route ends at Ace Datacenters (http://t.co/DGI1dcChBW). Apparently routing or data center issue

— Matt Vanderhoff (@mattvanderhoff) December 31, 2013

Thanks to @bluehost my personal blog is down as well.This is the most frustrating company to work with!!! @bluehostsupport #blogfail

— Lauren (@pinkonthecheek) December 31, 2013

Update 4.07PM

Access to the Bluehost website has been restored. Some users have reported seeing their websites back online...