My site is down — a checklist
Five checks that identify the cause of nearly every outage.
Updated 29 Aug 2026
- Is it only you? Try a different network or a phone on mobile data. A local ISP resolver caching a stale record looks exactly like an outage.
- Is the domain still registered? An expired domain stops resolving before anything else breaks. Your domains shows the expiry date, and renewal prices are public.
- Is the account suspended? An unpaid invoice suspends the service — the billing timeline says exactly when.
- Did you change DNS recently? Records take up to an hour to propagate after a nameserver change.
- Is there an error, or nothing at all? A PHP error means the server is fine and the application is not — the error log will name the file and the line.
The log is in the control panel, which opens from the account:
It works for me but not for my client — why?
Almost always a resolver holding the previous answer, and it clears itself within the TTL. The exception worth checking is a country-level or office firewall: if the site loads on mobile data and not on their office connection, the problem is between them and us rather than on the server.
How do I know whether it is a HostBari problem?
If a plain static file will not load either, and a second site on the same plan is also down, it is ours. Open a ticket with the exact address and the time it started — those two facts are what let us match your report to a log line instead of asking you for them.