Squarespace Outage History

StatusGator detected an outage at Mar 31, 2026 8:47 PM UTC, about 20 minutes before official acknowledgment. Impact began around 8:47 PM UTC as Squarespace-hosted sites and account pages started returning 503 errors, preventing visitors from loading sites and blocking access to the Squarespace dashboard. The Squarespace status page later reported connectivity issues and said the team was investigating at Mar 31, 2026 9:07 PM UTC, signaling a broader outage as users worldwide reported loading failures.

User reports describe widespread 503 errors across regions, with sites not loading and editors inaccessible, indicating a broad disruption to both public pages and site management. As of the latest update, no restoration ETA was provided and the incident remained ongoing.

An outage within Squarespace affected the Acuity Scheduling integration, preventing clients from updating payment card details and disrupting payments for businesses relying on online scheduling. The disruption began at 5:42 PM UTC, and engineers indicated they were working to identify the root cause.

By 6:28 PM UTC, Squarespace reported that the root cause had been identified and a fix was being implemented to restore card update functionality. The service was restored by 6:37 PM UTC, with card update workflows returning to normal for affected users.

Squarespace experienced site loading issues that prevented pages from loading for some users. User reports began around 3:15 PM UTC, and the Squarespace status page flagged a problem with the Site Loading component at 3:43 PM UTC as the issue began. The team continued investigating as impact persisted, with the page noting ongoing analysis through the escalation.

Squarespace experienced a partial disruption affecting domain registrations not completing and remaining in pending status, and later impacting billing subscriptions. Users attempting to register domains or update billing could have faced delays during the incident. The issue began at 1:38 PM UTC and broadened to include accounts and billing functionality.

A fix was implemented at 3:22 PM UTC and the Domains and Accounts & Billing components were brought back up. The service returned to full operation by 3:57 PM UTC as remediation completed and monitoring continued. Squarespace provided status updates throughout the incident, documenting the investigation and eventual resolution.

Users attempting domain transfers encountered errors beginning at 12:52 PM UTC. Squarespace confirmed a fix had been deployed and monitoring was in progress, and the Domains transfer functionality returned to normal by 1:32 PM UTC after about 40 minutes of degraded service.

Users attempting to load Squarespace sites faced connectivity issues beginning at Mar 1, 2026 9:07 AM UTC. The Site Loading component was shown as degraded during the disruption as Squarespace investigated the cause, leading to pages not loading or rendering slowly for visitors. The outage persisted for a little over two hours. The service was back to normal by Mar 1, 2026 11:17 AM UTC as status updates indicated recovery.

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.