At the time of this post, Minecraft is experiencing a giant service outage. It’s causing major problems for people who want to log on to multiplayer servers.
Fortunately, there is a website that pings Mojang’s servers that run all things Minecraft, namely:
- Login – If this is down, only offline mode will be available
- Session – If this is down you cannot login to multiplayer
- Website – The website cannot be accessed if this is down, but logins should still work
- Skins – All players will show the default skin if this is down
Link: http://xpaw.ru/mcstatus/
