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When I check isitdownrightnow.com which, I guess, should be definitive, both archive.ph and archive.today are always down (https://pasteboard.co/fjau0VrVphdn.png). However, people keep posting archive links like this here on HN, so I'm wondering if I'm missing something here.
According to my (admittedly limited) understanding of how the internet works, such a behaviour can't really be explained beyond some unlikely probabilistic explanation that I'm always hitting these links at exactly the wrong time. Is there some really sophisticated geo blocking I'm unaware of that could be occurring? Sorry, by now I'm just really confused about the whole thing..
From my reading of HN comments about this sort of thing over the years (I'm not a techie), the one thing that recurs is having ad blockers/VPNs etc. that seem to make archive.ph not work.
I saw someone mention in another HN post something about DNS being a factor, that some nameservers could be blocking it. My understanding is that my VPN also reroutes the DNS though, so I figured I'd be okay once VPN is on. Unless the VPN also uses the same nameservers that block archive.ph..
Actually, it looks like this has cropping up across multiple other threads, must do some reading and get to the bottom of this! https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
Try this: get a computer that doesn't have VPN/ad blockers/etc. and try the archive link; better: do it right from where you are.
Might save you further investigation and time...