Is MaxCDN down right now?

No. Our checks are finding no problems with MaxCDN right now. That verdict is live, and the banner at the top of this page carries it too. We re-check MaxCDN continuously using its official status feed, direct network probes and reports from visitors, stopping at the first check that gives a clear answer, and the page updates itself as soon as anything changes. A green verdict does not rule out a fault affecting only some users or regions.

The problems visitors report most often on this page are images not loading, downloads failing, slow or laggy, high latency, DNS / site unreachable, 5xx error pages, can't connect and poor video quality. Those are the options the report button offers for MaxCDN, chosen for how this service actually fails rather than a generic list, and the "user reports" chart above breaks down which ones people are picking right now.

Our checks run from one place on the internet, so a fault limited to your region or network can be real while our probes succeed. With MaxCDN specifically, MaxCDN's edge servers are distributed globally, and individual regions or specific cache nodes can fail independently while others remain operational, affecting only users in those areas. That is why this page reports what it observed rather than declaring the service healthy, and why reports from other visitors count toward the verdict.

For MaxCDN, check if the same image or file loads quickly when accessed directly from your origin server instead of through the CDN URL, and test from multiple geographic locations or use a VPN to test different regions. A problem that follows you across networks and devices is very unlikely to be yours.

If this page shows evidence of problems, the fault is most likely on MaxCDN's side. Specifically: avoid purging your entire CDN cache in response, as this will cause a thundering herd of requests to your origin server when service restores, potentially overloading it; instead, wait for MaxCDN to recover and let edge caches repopulate naturally. Reporting it here helps other people see they are not alone.

Continuously, around the clock. MaxCDN does not publish a machine-readable status feed, so we cannot read a verdict from them. We probe maxcdn.com directly over HTTP, fall back to an ICMP ping if that is inconclusive, and weigh reports from visitors. That means we can tell you the service is unreachable, but not what MaxCDN says about it. The verification tier box on this page names whichever check produced the verdict you are reading, so you can see how direct the evidence is.

Yes, at status.maxcdn.com, and it is linked further up this page. That is MaxCDN's own account of their service and it is the place to look for their estimate of a fix. We read it where we can, but we publish our own observations beside it rather than only repeating theirs, because an operator's status page can lag a problem their users are already hitting.

No. status.buzz is an independent monitoring site operated by LuzLab LLC, with no connection to MaxCDN or maxcdn.com. It reads publicly available endpoints and status feeds, and publishes what it observed. For account or billing problems you need MaxCDN's own support, not us.