Yesterday, the Internet Archive experienced a power outage that took some of our services offline and degraded others. The power outage at one of our datacenters was caused by damage to the power feed, necessitating PG&E to repair it.
We are still bringing up the upload feature, but otherwise we are live and kicking. Please enjoy the old stuff.
PG&E crews arrived and worked until 4 a.m., alongside our infrastructure staff, to restore power. By 4:15 a.m., our fans, network, and servers were coming back online in sequence.
A big thank you to the PG&E crew and our staff for working through the night to restore services and get the Internet Archive back online.
All your fans are coming back online indeed…
Thanks for the update.
Text content search is not working still showing up 502
lot people still getting error 224003, videos just spins
Excellent. Thanks.
Hi! Lots of videos are unable to load, do you think this is an issue from the power outage?
Always the last mile.
Let me guess: it was a hungry squirrel 😉 😉 😉
I am currently trying to view A.E. Nathan Walmart Quilt of the Month page. It is still coming back with the page being temporarily down.
Enjoy what stuff? Trailers? Who tf wants to see trailers from 20+ year old movies? Every movie I try to download is a trailer. Who the hell uploads this crap? I wanted to watch some 30+ year old movies for nostalgia sake and got 30 second long trailers. Why in God’s name are you saving this stuff and not the actual movie? Then you have the gaul to ask for donations for this garbage? Sheeesh!
“Bad request” still pops up on desktop but mobile is seemingly normal.
Glad you were able to recover! It seems that search is still not working: “Error details: backend_request search: The search backend encountered an exception (the FTS API request failed, the error reported was: HTTP 502) “
So Nice 🙂
Man, a power outage—that’s kind of weird—but at least the site is back up.
what happened to status.archive.org why doesnt that page exist any more and represent some uptime and detailed statistics about components and parts of archiveorg?
too bad :((((
RIP Wayback Machine 2001-2026! D (\
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The problems now are just a very slow and error prone on most files attempted. One file opens while another one won’t. Maybe an hour later that one will open and another won’t. So while it tries to open and after so many seconds just gives off various errors. Usually when clicking on a file its like a second or less and opens. Now its like 10 seconds if it opens or it just fails after so much time. Basically half or more of my actual Uploads fail along with others on IA. It has been like this for days. Reading the DL (failure) charts one can see peaks and valleys hours in. Just not stable from hour to hour. I know some are working 7/24 on this and appreciate it. Those broken power line polls look aged, maybe decades? Don’t think I’ve seen anything like that around here. Hopefully it gets repaired. You now have a Trillion + web pages. Keep up the great work that you do which is phenomenal!
I hope get everything fix. I looking at video or download a file then come off line
The site is still broken would appreciate a statement from Internet Archive on when they expect functionality to return.
Still can’t access the Internet Archive (20.08. 2026).
All I get today is this message on an otherwise white screen:
‘Bad Request
The request had invalid syntax or could not currently be handled by the service.’
So far, I’ve experienced a problem downloading files, even after the service was restored. It says that the connection timed out, no matter what I did. Anyone have a solution to this issue?
It was very, very worrying not knowing why the archive was down! I am glad all is well, now.
It’s seem that the sites is not 100 percent up due to glitches on the sites that be cuase by that power outage this past weekend hopefully you guys here getting it fix a bit so keep us posted on this please
We are missing some pages in the wayback machine.
Site is down again. Also, pictures never seem to load on many archived webpages.