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First 60 Minutes of a Website Outage

Incidents3/25/20268 min read

A calm incident-response checklist for DNS failures, hosting outages, expired SSL, and application crashes.

The first hour of an outage is about narrowing the blast radius and communicating clearly.

Triage Quickly

Check DNS, SSL, HTTP status, hosting health, recent deploys, database connectivity, and error logs.

Communicate

Share impact, next update time, current mitigation, and recovery owner with stakeholders.

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