Downtime - Blog Posts
AO3 will be down for 3 hours of maintenance from 09:00-12:00 UTC on Friday, March 7. Check what time that is for you.
Posted: 09:00 UTC March 6, 2025
This is what it feels like being torn apart LIMB BY LIMB
AO3 Planned Downtime
The Archive of Our Own will be down for about 10 hours of maintenance between 07:00 UTC and 17:00 UTC (check what time that is for you). This downtime will allow our AD&T and Systems teams to prepare our search database for a software update.
Date: 07:00 UTC, June 29, 2024
A couple of our servers have gotten a bit overwhelmed, so we're taking some down time to give them a chance to catch up. We'll be back as soon as possible!
2024-09-02 11:30 UTC
We're looking into issues causing site slowness and error pages. Very sorry, will let you know as soon as we know more!
(17:48 UTC March 28, 2024)
We had to restart a database, so the site will continue to be slow or non-responsive as it recovers. Please be gentle with the Archive, and stand by for further updates.
(17:58 UTC March 28, 2024)
Doing the gentlest possible thing to help out our database server: taking the Archive down for a bit. No need to panic, we'll be back as soon as we can!
(18:03 UTC March 28, 2024)
A cup of tea, a bowl of soup, and AO3. Truly, the happy single girl's equivalent of a jug of wine, a loaf of bread, and thou. Or, to parody it better—— A bevy of fanfics on AO3, A cup of tea, a bowl of soup——just me!
I'm sick as hell, guys. I'm not gonna be getting any chapters done anytime soon. I'm sorry!🤒😷🤕
Some users are getting errors when attempting to access the site. We're looking into it!
Date: 22:41 UTC August 30, 2023