Popular Over-The-Top (OTT) service provider Disney+Hotstar faced temporary outages across multiple cities in India.
As per the DownDetector website, Disney+Hotstar was down from 11:00 am and complaints of service disruption spiked at around 12:30 and is now slowly returning to normal.
On the DownDetector heatmap, Disney+Hotstar service disruptions were reported in Bengaluru, Delhi, Chandigarh, Jaipur, Kolkata, Nagpur, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Chennai, and other cities of India.
It should be noted that Disney+Hotstar is the official online streaming service provider of the ongoing India-Australia Border-Gavaskar Cricket Tournament in the country. Every match be it a test or One-Day International or T20, the app registers a massive number of viewers, particularly in India.
People took to Twitter to complain about the Disney+Hotstar service disruption. Here are some reactions:
Is it me or is the hotstar app down? It keeps saying an error has occurred,anyone got a fix for it?
— Abhinav Mukund (@mukundabhinav) February 17, 2023
#Hotstar is down. This was a post from them few days back against the streaming apps. #CricketTwitter #INDvsAUS #BGT2023 pic.twitter.com/l7MlbrdnI2
— Himanshu Pareek (@Sports_Himanshu) February 17, 2023
The whole website is down ? #hotstar pic.twitter.com/cOh0CspHLf
— Deep Jyoti Ray (@deepjyotiray1) February 17, 2023
KL Rahul took a stunning catch by driving his right in the air and Hotstar gone down due to heavy traffic on their server to see this once in a decade phenomenon where KL Rahul is contributing for India.
— EngiNerd. (@mainbhiengineer) February 17, 2023
@DisneyPlusHS It seems Disney Hotstar services are down, anyone experiencing the same issue?#disneyhotstardown #IndiaVsAustralia #BorderGavaskarTrophy pic.twitter.com/O3KAnpFTIH
— Praveen Srivastva (@NeoPraveen) February 17, 2023
People running to Twitter to check hotstar down problem be like#hotstar pic.twitter.com/EaPahBmW3u
— Anjali (@Anjali_14_) February 17, 2023
LOL, no wonder the entire #Hotstar website is down - their domain expired and they've just renewed it a while ago 😂 pic.twitter.com/XsviQ4FmCD
— Sudhanshu Saraf (@SudhanshuSaraf1) February 17, 2023
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