Canonical web services knocked offline before Ubuntu Summit
A data-centre infrastructure incident took down Ubuntu websites, DNS, Launchpad, the keyserver and other services from about 11:00 to 18:40 UTC; Canonical has not published a root cause.
- Service
- Canonical / Ubuntu online services
- Date
- 11 November 2026
- Cause
- Unknown
- Duration
- 7.5 hours
- Status
- resolved
- Severity
- major
- Region
- Global
- Source
- The Register ↗
Cite this
Nuffield Consulting, “Canonical web services knocked offline before Ubuntu Summit”, The Daily Tech Wire outage & breach log, 11 Nov 2026. https://techwire.nuffieldconsulting.com/incidents/2026-11-11-canonical-ubuntu-online-services-outage/ (retrieved 15 Nov 2026).
This entry summarises public reporting. Please also cite the original source: The Register, https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/11/11/canonical-web-services-get-stage-fright-ahead-of-ubuntu-summit/5309186.
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