My domain is currently showing “Domain Suspended” and I’m not sure why it was suspended.
This website was mainly for my personal use (it worked like a private dashboard). I even protected it with a password so other people couldn’t access it.
However, suddenly the domain started showing “Domain Suspended” without any warning.
I checked my hosting control panel but I couldn’t find any clear suspension reason, and I also checked my email inbox/spam folder but I did not receive any notification.
Could you please tell me:
The exact reason why my domain/account was suspended
Whether it is related to billing, policy issues, security, or a reported abuse
It looks like the “Domain Suspended” issue was temporary.
I didn’t make any changes, and I didn’t receive any email/notification about the reason, but everything seems back to normal now?
In short, major outage, i myself as a mofh reseller can’t access the panel. Just throws error - Lost connection to MySQL server at ‘reading initial communication packet’, system error: 111
Seems to me like they make it happen every few months to get people on a paid plan, so much for free forever (infinity free). Anyways, mine is showing the same suspended thing today.
The downtime was caused by an upgrade to the core database of the free hosting platform. This was unfortunately not possible to do without downtime, but effort was made to limit the downtime and impact to a minimum.
I cannot stress enough how wrong this idea is.
Just ask yourself: how likely are you to purchase hosting from a company whose free service keeps going down? Would you trust them with your paid account? I wouldn’t, and I’m pretty sure most people feel the same.
We realize this too. So we will never, NEVER, EVER cause deliberate downtime to your website. Downtime is bad for everyone, including us. We’re not in the business of harassing people to upgrade. It simply doesn’t work.
Yes, downtime does happen occasionally. The free hosting stack is complex, with many moving parts. Hosting millions of websites brings challenges that are hard to foresee, and we can’t afford high levels of redundancy on a free service. But just because downtime affects you doesn’t mean we’re doing it on purpose. Running free hosting is genuinely difficult, which is why so many companies have stopped offering it.
Hi, thanks for the explanation.
My website is still working fine now. Good work and thank you for the effort.
Yes, I can imagine hosting management is really difficult — millions of sites are constantly being created and removed. Some users break things, some use it normally, and some simply can’t afford paid hosting. So I understand the challenges on a free service.
