Is the CC down?

[Boy]

Yep, the same here. Same 504 error.

[Egg Bramhill]

Doing well lately aren't they Boy.

[Acorn]

Doing well lately aren't they Boy.

Xara's EULA promises 98% availability. Xara on-line is through Magix. Xara also uses Cloudflare to push content to the edge, closer to you.

My https://downloadsv18.xara.com/ seems to be delivered from the US of A through IP 104.26.7.154.

I would try https://issitedownrightnow.com/statu...sv18.xara.com; it is the most graphical of these types of sites.
Whether it is accurate depends on how often it is accessed. Perhaps we should add a Sticky Thread inviting people to try once a day?
Currently my hit is showing a Server Down 503 error but I have accessible content still showing in the OCC. Perhaps Cloudflare caching?

Acorn

[Daniel]

Xara's EULA promises 98% availability.

Wow, that's... a week in every year that it can be down, pretty unambitious!

Maybe it can be improved so that if the local version is down, an alternative is used: having tried with a VPN to present myself as being in a different region, it's clear that could work - because the catalogue being down in the UK didn't prevent connections from the US.

[Egg Bramhill]

It's down again!

[Acorn]

It's down again!

Egg, sorry to hear - fine here.

Acorn

[Egg Bramhill]

That's strange Acorn I get a
503 Service Unavailable

No server is available to handle this request.

[handrawn]

down for me - 504 error

[Acorn]

I pinged downloadsv18.xara.com and got one packet back for IP 167.71.131.225. yet the OCC is still working for me.

Acorn

[handrawn]

you are obviously a preferred customer