Three Basecamp outages. One week. What happened?

September 25, 2020

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Basecamp has suffered through three serious outages in the last week, on Friday, August 28th, on Tuesday, September 1, and again today. It’s embarrassing, and we’re deeply sorry. This is more than a blip or two.

Basecamp has been down during the middle of your day. We know these outages have really caused issues for you and your work. We’ve put you in the position of explaining Basecamp’s reliability to your customers and clients, too.

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Three Basecamp outages. One week. What happened?

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