Kinsta outage, April 2026: Cloudflare verification loop on phpMyAdmin

Kinsta reported and resolved an incident: Cloudflare verification loop on phpMyAdmin. It lasted 1 hour.

Resolved

From Kinsta's official status page, in their words.

What happened

Started
Resolved
Duration
1 hour
Impact
minor
Affected
Cloudflare Integration

Why it happened

Kinsta has not given a cause in its updates. We never guess one.

This incident on the Kinsta status page

Timeline

Newest first. From Kinsta's official status page, in their words.

  1. resolved

    This incident has been resolved.

  2. monitoring

    A fix has been implemented and we are monitoring the results.

  3. investigating

    We are currently investigating issues with Cloudflare verification repeating in a loop when accessing phpMyAdmin on certain sites, effectively preventing database access via phpMyAdmin. We will provide updates as they come.

What this means for a business (and what to check now)

  • Retry anything that failed during the 1 hour.
  • Enter any payments, bookings or jobs you took another way.
  • If a deadline fell inside the window, keep this page as your record of the outage.

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