Is Hotspot Shield Down?

Hotspot Shield is a vpn service.

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Hotspot Shield is UP

Hotspot Shield is reachable from our servers. It responded with HTTP 200 in 563ms. If you cannot access it, the issue is likely on your end — try clearing your cache, flushing DNS, or switching networks.

Response: 563ms

Status: HTTP 200

Checked: Tue, 28 Apr 2026 10:04:39 GMT

From: Cloudflare Edge

Site: hotspotshield.com ↗

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About Hotspot Shield outages

Hotspot Shield (hotspotshield.com) is a vpn service. Hotspot Shield is a vpn service.

Common causes of Hotspot Shield outages include server overload, DNS failures, DDoS attacks, software deployments, CDN issues, and infrastructure failures. Most outages resolve within minutes to a few hours.

If Hotspot Shield is down for everyone: Check their official status page and social media for updates.

If Hotspot Shield is up but not working for you: Try clearing your browser cache, disabling your VPN, flushing DNS, or switching networks.