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Overview
There are various reasons why your website may be down. The following list of articles describes the most common issues that may occur and steps to help you quickly resolve them.
Check DreamHost's status page
Check DreamHost's status page to view any issues DreamHost is currently aware of and working to resolve.
Other things to check
After you determine that the issue is not DreamHost-wide, you can check the following items related to your account or server.
Domain registration issues
Payment or abuse-related issues
Server-related issues
Advanced troubleshooting steps
- Were your processes killed on the shared server?
- Common error messages
- Checking your access and error logs
- Error establishing a database connection