Is Altavista down right now?
No one has reported a problem in the last hour.
About Altavista
The domain was registered 28 years ago through MarkMonitor Inc.. The Internet Archive first captured it in 1996. It ranks #6,708 among the most visited sites in the world on the Tranco list. It is hosted in United States on the Amazon.com, Inc. network.
The current problem is a partial outage that began on 22 October 2026 at 11:23 UTC and is still ongoing. There have been 16 incidents in the last 90 days, 120 h 19 min of downtime in total, and 77.41% of our checks succeeded.
Reports, last 24 hours
0 reports · normally about 3 per hour| Problem reported | No reports in the last 24 hours. |
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What we checked
11:23:46 UTC| Layer | Result | Outcome |
|---|---|---|
| DNS name lookup | altavista.com resolves to 13.248.158.7 (AS16509 Amazon.com, Inc.) | pass |
| TLS certificate | Certificate from DigiCert Inc, expires 2027-01-06 | pass |
| Content | Page title: “Yahoo Search - Web Search” · changed in the last 48 h | – |
| Reputation | Trust score 100/100 · trust check | Established |
Outage history, 90 days
| Started (UTC) | Incident | Duration |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-22 11:23 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; Cape Town: HTTP 500; Mumbai: HTTP 500; Paris: HTTP 500 | ongoing |
| 2026-10-20 07:41 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; United States: curl exit 0, HTTP 500 | 8 h 44 min |
| 2026-10-17 15:10 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; Paris: HTTP 500 | 4 h 11 min |
| 2026-10-15 06:03 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; Paris: HTTP 500 | 6 h 44 min |
| 2026-10-14 09:31 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; United States: curl exit 0, HTTP 500 | 17 h 18 min |
| 2026-10-13 22:29 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; Mumbai: HTTP 500 | 5 h 37 min |
| 2026-10-10 07:52 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; Paris: HTTP 500 | 9 h 23 min |
| 2026-10-08 23:19 | Down · Phoenix: HTTP 500; Cape Town: HTTP 500; Mumbai: HTTP 500 | 25 h 23 min |
| 2026-10-01 04:11 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; Singapore: HTTP 500 | 3 h 14 min |
| 2026-09-30 14:54 | Partial outage · Phoenix: HTTP 500; Cape Town: HTTP 500; Mumbai: HTTP 500; Singapore: HTTP 500; San Francisco: HTTP 500 | 13 h 17 min |
Common questions
Is Altavista down for everyone or just me?
Compare the test from your browser above with our server checks. If our servers reach altavista.com and your browser cannot, the problem is on your connection, DNS or network. If both fail, the site is down.
How do you know if Altavista is down?
We request the homepage from 8 locations, check DNS, the TLS certificate and the HTTP response, and compare the page content with what we saw before. We also read the service's official status feed where one exists and count visitor reports against the usual rate for the hour.
What can I do while it is down?
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