Posted on Tue, 01 Sep 2026
California forwarding server (fw3.sshreach.me) was down for a little over an hour
Starting at 17:07:22 UTC today, our California forwarding server, fw3.sshreach.me, went down. Users routed through fw3 would have seen their connections drop or fail to establish during this window.
The cause was a failing hardware component on the physical host. Our provider caught it quickly and swapped the hardware right away — the server was back up and passing traffic normally by 18:25:58 UTC, putting the total outage at 1 hour, 18 minutes, and 36 seconds.
Everything has been stable since, and we've confirmed forwarding through fw3 is behaving as expected.
We know any downtime on a forwarding server is disruptive, especially if you had an active session riding through fw3 at the time, and we're sorry for the interruption. We'll keep an eye on the replaced hardware over the next few days to make sure it holds up.
Warm regards, The sshreach.me team