{"id":653745,"date":"2026-10-22T11:24:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:24:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653745\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T11:24:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T11:24:10","slug":"php-some-uk-government-sites-may-be-down-temporarily-says-no-10-follow-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/653745\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP: Some UK government sites may be down temporarily, says No 10 &#8211; follow live"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;My car garage can&#8217;t process MOTs online&#8217;published at 11:42 BST<\/p>\n<p>11:42 BST<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1l98ssq-Contributor etflsgg2\">Rozina Sini<br \/>BBC News<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dean Presley, who has a garage in Chepstow, South Wales, tells us he\u2019s been unable to properly process MOTs online. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says his MOT computer system has been down since Wednesday morning, and while it has experienced outages before, they never last this long. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;MOTs can be conducted and they&#8217;re legal but none of the paperwork and certificates can be printed and they&#8217;re not on the system,&#8221; Dean says. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This is forcing him to write everything on paper documents, leading to delays for customers, he adds. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It\u2019s a bit of a pain,&#8221; he tells us, &#8220;but customers seem to understand&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dean&#8217;s garage is unlikely to be the only one experiencing issues, as the DVSA&#8217;s MOT website had been reporting an outage since around midday on Wednesday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">It didn&#8217;t explicitly mention the PHP issue &#8211; the site just reported a &#8220;problem with the MOT testing service&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A separate update a few minutes ago says the incident has now been resolved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"a purple banner that reads &quot;Your Voice&quot; in white text.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/a80c8752-e235-4afa-b92e-3ee7e3e2ce5a.png.webp\"  width=\"350\" height=\"58\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#8216;My car garage can&#8217;t process MOTs online&#8217;published at 11:42 BST 11:42 BST Rozina SiniBBC News Dean Presley, who&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":653746,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[114,85,46],"class_list":["post-653745","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-business","tag-il","tag-israel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653745","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=653745"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653745\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/653746"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}