Squarespace Outage History

Squarespace experienced an outage on 2026-01-15 that disrupted site editing and site access for about 55 minutes. Users reported 503 errors, login failures, and editors not loading, affecting content updates and site visibility. The incident began at 7:38 PM UTC and was resolved by 8:33 PM UTC.

Status updates from Squarespace were not published during the incident. StatusGator detected the issue at Jan 15, 2026 7:38 PM UTC based on user reports, with activity peaking around 19:45–19:55 UTC. The event appears to have affected multiple components including site hosting, the editor, and authentication, indicating a partial outage rather than a full platform outage.

Squarespace experienced connectivity issues that caused 503 errors and login problems when loading sites and backend access. An Early Warning Signal indicated website and login unavailability due to server errors starting at Jan 12, 2026 9:50 AM UTC (ending Jan 12, 2026 10:49 AM UTC), with user reports of 503 and related errors during this period.

Squarespace experienced a brief degradation in the Domain Registrations service, affecting the Domains component and potentially causing delays or errors for users attempting to register or manage domain names. The outage began at Dec 22, 2025 2:27 PM UTC and was resolved by Dec 22, 2025 3:38 PM UTC, lasting about 1 hour and 11 minutes.

Squarespace posted two status updates during the incident, noting ongoing investigation into the Domain Registrations issue and that other Squarespace services were not indicated as affected.