## Outages

The Solana blockchain had experienced several notable outages in service.

On 14 September 2021, the Solana blockchain went offline after a surge of transactions caused the network to [fork](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fork_\(blockchain\)), and different [validators](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Validator_\(blockchain\)) had different views of the state of the network. The network was brought back online the next day on 15 September 2021.[\[24\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solana_\(blockchain_platform\)#cite_note-yahoo20210915-24) The outage lasted a total of about 17 hours.