What do I do if my website is down?
How to diagnose the causes of inaccessibility of your web site
Objective
Several error returns may appear on your browser if your website becomes inaccessible. The examples below show an incorrect configuration of your DNS servers, your DNS zone or a suspended domain (if your website does not display one of the error messages described here, see the Go further section):
This guide explains how to resolve common "This site can't be reached" type errors.
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Requirements
- Administrative access to your domain name in order to change the DNS servers and edit the DNS zone
- No outstanding payments and renewals of related services (domain name and web hosting plan)
OVHcloud Control Panel Access
- Direct link:
- Navigation path:
Web Cloud>Hosting plans> Select your web hosting plan
Instructions
1 - Check the validity of your domain name subscription
You are solely responsible for renewing your web services.
As a hosting provider, OVHcloud is required to permanently delete any web services (domain names, hosting plans, email accounts, etc.) that have not been renewed in time, as well as all of the data they store.
As a result, we strongly recommend that you enable automatic renewal for all of your OVHcloud subscriptions.
To check that your domain name subscription is valid, click on the tabs below to view each of the 3 steps.
Go to the page.
2 - Check the DNS servers
To check the validity of your DNS servers, go to the page, then select the domain name concerned.
Click on the scenario that matches your situation to view the content.
Scenario 1 - No anomalies appear on the DNS servers
To check the DNS servers declared, click on the tabs below to view each of the 3 steps.
Go to the page, then select the domain name concerned.

Scenario 2 - A warning appears above the DNS zone
A warning in the DNS zone tab indicates that the DNS servers used by your domain name are not the ones indicated in your DNS zone. Two scenarios are possible:
- Under the sentence "You currently use the following DNS servers", the servers listed are "ns ? .ovh.net" and "dns ? .ovh.net" (in which "?" stands for a double-digit number):

Modify the DNS servers as described in our guide "How to modify the DNS servers of an OVHcloud domain name", so that they are identical to the targets of the NS type records in your DNS zone.
Your website will then be available within a maximum of 48 hours.
- Under the sentence "You currently use the following DNS servers", the servers listed are not "ns ? .ovh.net" and "dns ? .ovh.net".

In this situation, please contact your DNS Zone provider, your webmaster or a OVHcloud partner before making any changes.
The DNS servers used by your domain name may be functional and the problem accessing your website be linked to a missing or incorrect entry in the active DNS zone. Changing the DNS servers in this situation might make your email addresses or other online applications related to your domain name unavailable.
Scenario 3 - No NS-type entries appear in the DNS zone
Your domain's DNS zone does not contain any NS record:

Click on the tabs below to view each of the 4 steps.
In the Web Cloud section, click , select the domain name concerned, then open the DNS zone tab.
3 - Check the DNS zone
In this step, you will find your hosting plan's IP address, then add it to your DNS zone.
If your website is not hosted on the OVHcloud infrastructure or is managed by another provider, please contact the concerned support service.
If your website is hosted on one of our Web Hosting offers, click on the tabs below to view each of the 2 steps.
Go to the page, then select the web hosting plan concerned.

Then refer to it in your domain's DNS zone, by modifying or creating one or more A entries.
Your website will then be available within a maximum of 24 hours.
Go further
Resolving a "Site not installed" error
Fixing the 500 Internal Server Error
Resolving the most common 1-click module errors
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