Is Paramount+ down right now?

Yes. HostTracker lets you add any URL - including third-party services you depend on, not just your own website - as a monitored target, and notifies you automatically the moment it becomes unreachable. Before sending an alert, HostTracker re-verifies a failure from multiple locations in its 300+-location network, so you're notified about real, confirmed outages rather than a single location's momentary blip. The free plan checks two monitors every 30 minutes indefinitely at no cost; paid plans check as often as once a minute, with alerts available through SMS, email, voice call, and several messenger apps.

Buffering during a live event is usually congestion rather than an outage: the service is up and serving, but the path between you and it cannot sustain the bitrate at that moment. It often affects some regions and providers much more than others, depending on which CDN edge you are routed to, which is why one household struggles while another watches cleanly. Lowering quality if the app allows it helps. If the site is unreachable rather than merely stuttering, that is a different failure - the multi-location check on this page distinguishes an unreachable service from a congested one.

Yes, and it is worth doing before restarting anything. First, try a different streaming service or a large download on the same connection: if those are also slow, the bottleneck is your own link, not the platform. Second, run the live check here, which tests paramountplus.com from many independent networks at once - if those probes reach it comfortably while your connection struggles, the problem is local or on the path to you. That combination separates the three real possibilities cleanly: your connection, the route to the service, or the service itself.