Category Archives: General

PBworks is back online. We apologize for the disruption over the last 2 days, and reiterate that the safety and integrity of your data is paramount to us and we’re thankful we were able respond to this news with no breach. If you experience any issues with performance, please let us know at support@pbworks.com.

As referenced in our last post, we have taken PBworks offline to keep user data safe. No data breach happened on PBworks’ infrastructure. We have a patch and are deploying it. Our current estimate for when the PBworks platform will be operational is tomorrow, Friday, October 23. This will allow us to deploy and testContinue reading “Status Update – October 22, 2026”

On Tuesday night, October 20, we became aware of an internet-wide security vulnerability that impacts one of the foundation technologies that underlies the PBworks service. We continue learning more about the issue, and how we can address it as cybersecurity experts examine and release additional data around this critical vulnerability. If you want to learnContinue reading “Urgent Maintenance October 21 2026”

An unexpected issue has been identified by our engineering team and as a result PBworks is unavailable. We are working to address the issue and will update this blog periodically as we address it. [update : 10:22am PST] The team has identified the issue, and are diligently working to implement a solution and bring theContinue reading “Urgent Maintenance, July 26, 9:30am Pacific”

An unexpected issue has been identified by our engineering team stemming from our data center move this weekend. PBworks is unavailable. We are working to address the issue and will update this blog periodically as we address it. [update : 11:42am PST] The team has identified the issue, and are diligently working to implement aContinue reading “Urgent Maintenance, Feb 21st, 9:30am pacific”

We are conducting a planned infrastructure upgrade the night of Friday, February 19. Our datacenter provider, Rackspace, is requiring us to switch physical datacenter locations. During this time, PBworks will be unavailable. The maintenance window starts February 18, 11 PM Pacific, which is February 19, 2 AM Eastern / 7 AM GMT, and will lastContinue reading “Planned Maintenance, February 18, 11 PM Pacific, 24 hours”

We are conducting a planned infrastructure upgrade this week.  During this time, PBworks will be in read-only “maintenance mode”.  The maintenance window starts April 22, 12 PM Pacific / April 22, 3 AM Eastern and will last up to two hours. We recommend that you save your work before the maintenance window begins.  Thanks forContinue reading “Planned Maintenance, April 24 24:00, 2 hours”

PBworks required an emergency maintenance of our logging and auditing server. Service was restored at 08:05 am Pacific time.

We are conducting a planned infrastructure upgrade this week.  During this time, PBworks will be in read-only “maintenance mode”.  The maintenance window starts July 22, 9 PM Pacific / July 23, 12 AM Eastern / 4 AM UTC / 5 AM BST, and will last up to three hours. We recommend that you save yourContinue reading “3-Hour Scheduled Maintenance Window (starting July 22 9 PM Pacific / July 23 12 AM Eastern / 4 AM UTC / 5 AM BST)”

PBworks is currently experiencing a service disruption due to an unexpected hardware malfunction in our data center. We are working to restore service as fast as possible.