As I've said I find the portal indispensable as far as using the web. It saves many hours in the day every day I use it as far as navigating where I want to go on the web on a daily basis. The options available to the user to build the startpage are incomparable to any other startpage currently available, you can format it anyway you like and add virtually any amount of personal links you like. I would totally recommend it to anyone who is interested in making their life easier when navigating the web. Once the portal is built it offers the user a myriad of information and choices like non-other.
As far as being down, the last time was back in 2000 after a merger.
As to now regarding the current issue I've received a reply back from support:
Due to a server issue, the Excite website is unavailable for a small number of our members. We are working with our technical team to get this resolved as quickly as possible. Thank you for your patience.
So just as I figured, it's a "server issue". I was just wondering if anyone else might be able to offer input as to the situation with the Excite.com portal.
This only other time the site was down back in 2000 in didn't impact me, this is the first problem I've had with the Excite.com portal in the 20 years I've been using it going back to around 1995.
Thanks for the concern however.