When submarine cables fail, will pornhub.com still work?

Will not work

Domestic direct connections (O)
0

Domestic cloud services (?)
2

Foreign connections (X)
8

When submarine cables fail, can pornhub.com still load normally?

Based on the latest test, under a submarine-cable outage scenario pornhub.com may “not work.” If international connectivity is cut or blocked, the site may fail to load.

Why might pornhub.com “not work” when submarine cables fail?

During testing, when the homepage loaded we found that some content or resources had to be fetched from outside the country. Those resources usually load fine, but when cables are cut or traffic is severely congested those connections can fail—and the site may break along with them.

Does this mean pornhub.com will definitely be unavailable during severe cable congestion?

Not necessarily. This result is inferred from resource dependencies observed while loading the homepage. It reflects higher risk—not a guarantee that every page or every feature would fail completely.

How is resilience for pornhub.com under cable outages assessed?

When opening the homepage of pornhub.com, we observed 140 requests across 10 domains.
If any involve connections abroad, the outcome is classified as “Will not work.” If there are no foreign connections but there is reliance on in-country nodes of multinational cloud services, the outcome is “Uncertain.” If connections are only domestic aside from that international-cloud pattern, the outcome is “May work.”
For detailed rules and the full workflow, see the research methodology and overall report.

Site location

  • Foreign / OtherAS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.66.254.114.41

Connection information

  • Foreign / CloudAS60068 Datacamp Limitedpix-cdn77.phncdn.com
  • Foreign / CloudAS54113 Fastly, Inc.pix-fl.phncdn.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS15169 Google LLCwww.googletagmanager.com
  • Domestic / CloudAS15169 Google LLCwww.google.com.tw
  • Foreign / OtherAS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.www.pornhub.com
  • Foreign / OtherAS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.cn.pornhub.com
  • Foreign / OtherAS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.ei.phncdn.com
  • Foreign / OtherAS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.es.phncdn.com
  • Foreign / OtherAS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.cdn1-smallimg.phncdn.com

Test parameters

Test environment

  • IP: 220.132.212.194
  • City: Banqiao
  • Region: Taipei
  • Country: TW
  • Organization: AS3462 Data Communication Business Group
  • DNS server: 168.95.1.1

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  "url": "https://pornhub.com",
  "canonicalURL": "https://cn.pornhub.com/",
  "httpStatus": 200,
  "timestamp": "2026-07-20T19:19:29.108Z",
  "testParameters": {
    "customDNS": "168.95.1.1",
    "useAdblock": true,
    "adblockUrls": [
      "https://filter.futa.gg/hosts_abp.txt",
      "https://raw.githubusercontent.com/AdguardTeam/FiltersRegistry/master/filters/filter_15_DnsFilter/filter.txt"
    ],
    "useCache": true,
    "hasIPinfoToken": true
  },
  "testingEnvironment": {
    "ip": "220.132.212.194",
    "hostname": "220-132-212-194.hinet-ip.hinet.net",
    "city": "Banqiao",
    "region": "Taipei",
    "country": "TW",
    "loc": "25.0143,121.4672",
    "org": "AS3462 Data Communication Business Group",
    "timezone": "Asia/Taipei",
    "source": "ipinfo json api (direct)",
    "dnsServer": "168.95.1.1"
  },
  "requestCount": 140,
  "uniqueDomains": 10,
  "test_results": {
    "domestic": {
      "cloud": 2,
      "direct": 0
    },
    "foreign": {
      "cloud": 2,
      "direct": 6
    }
  },
  "domainDetails": [
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      "originalUrl": "https://pornhub.com/",
      "type": "document",
      "ipinfo": {
        "domain": "pornhub.com",
        "ip": "66.254.114.41",
        "hostname": "reflectededge.reflected.net",
        "city": "Waltham",
        "region": "Massachusetts",
        "country": "US",
        "loc": "42.3986,-71.2451",
        "org": "AS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.",
        "timezone": "America/New_York"
      },
      "category": "foreign/direct"
    },
    {
      "originalUrl": "https://www.pornhub.com/",
      "type": "document",
      "ipinfo": {
        "domain": "www.pornhub.com",
        "ip": "66.254.114.41",
        "hostname": "reflectededge.reflected.net",
        "city": "Waltham",
        "region": "Massachusetts",
        "country": "US",
        "loc": "42.3986,-71.2451",
        "org": "AS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.",
        "timezone": "America/New_York"
      },
      "category": "foreign/direct"
    },
    {
      "originalUrl": "https://cn.pornhub.com/",
      "type": "document",
      "ipinfo": {
        "domain": "cn.pornhub.com",
        "ip": "66.254.114.41",
        "hostname": "reflectededge.reflected.net",
        "city": "Waltham",
        "region": "Massachusetts",
        "country": "US",
        "loc": "42.3986,-71.2451",
        "org": "AS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.",
        "timezone": "America/New_York"
      },
      "category": "foreign/direct"
    },
    {
      "originalUrl": "https://ei.phncdn.com/www-static/js/lib/interval-helper.js?cache=2026072001",
      "type": "script",
      "ipinfo": {
        "domain": "ei.phncdn.com",
        "ip": "67.22.52.19",
        "city": "Singapore",
        "region": "Singapore",
        "country": "SG",
        "loc": "1.2897,103.8501",
        "org": "AS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.",
        "timezone": "Asia/Singapore"
      },
      "category": "foreign/direct"
    },
    {
      "originalUrl": "https://es.phncdn.com/images/categories/118x88/28.jpg?cache=1538057919",
      "type": "image",
      "ipinfo": {
        "domain": "es.phncdn.com",
        "ip": "67.22.52.19",
        "city": "Singapore",
        "region": "Singapore",
        "country": "SG",
        "loc": "1.2897,103.8501",
        "org": "AS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.",
        "timezone": "Asia/Singapore"
      },
      "category": "foreign/direct"
    },
    {
      "originalUrl": "https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtm.js?id=GTM-5M97TMJ",
      "type": "script",
      "ipinfo": {
        "domain": "www.googletagmanager.com",
        "ip": "142.250.196.200",
        "hostname": "nctsaa-ac-in-f8.1e100.net",
        "city": "Banqiao",
        "region": "Taipei",
        "country": "TW",
        "loc": "25.0143,121.4672",
        "org": "AS15169 Google LLC",
        "timezone": "Asia/Taipei"
      },
      "category": "domestic/cloud"
    },
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      "type": "image",
      "ipinfo": {
        "domain": "pix-cdn77.phncdn.com",
        "ip": "143.244.51.249",
        "hostname": "290962181.lax.cdn77.com",
        "city": "Los Angeles",
        "region": "California",
        "country": "US",
        "loc": "34.0522,-118.2437",
        "org": "AS60068 Datacamp Limited",
        "timezone": "America/Los_Angeles"
      },
      "category": "foreign/cloud"
    },
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      "type": "image",
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        "city": "Singapore",
        "region": "Singapore",
        "country": "SG",
        "loc": "1.2897,103.8501",
        "org": "AS54113 Fastly, Inc.",
        "timezone": "Asia/Singapore"
      },
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      "cloud_provider": {
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        "rtt": 66.228,
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          "prefix": "146.75.47.0/24",
          "anycast": true,
          "confidence": "confident",
          "partial": false,
          "asns": [
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          "date": "2026-07-17",
          "has_tw": false,
          "has_taipei": false,
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        }
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      "type": "image",
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        "domain": "cdn1-smallimg.phncdn.com",
        "ip": "66.254.114.156",
        "hostname": "reflectededge.reflected.net",
        "city": "Waltham",
        "region": "Massachusetts",
        "country": "US",
        "loc": "42.3986,-71.2451",
        "org": "AS29789 Reflected Networks, Inc.",
        "timezone": "America/New_York"
      },
      "category": "foreign/direct"
    },
    {
      "originalUrl": "https://www.google.com.tw/ads/ga-audiences?v=1&t=sr&slf_rd=1&_r=4&tid=G-B39RFFWGYY&cid=1745813869.1784575166&gtm=45je67g0v889308053z8892446692za20gzb892446692zd892446692&rcb=3&aip=1&dma=0&gcs=G111&gcd=13t3t3l3l5l1&npa=0&frm=0&tag_exp=115938465~115938469~118897920~118897930~119724320&z=780926909",
      "type": "image",
      "ipinfo": {
        "domain": "www.google.com.tw",
        "ip": "142.250.77.3",
        "hostname": "nctsaa-ab-in-f3.1e100.net",
        "city": "Banqiao",
        "region": "Taipei",
        "country": "TW",
        "loc": "25.0143,121.4672",
        "org": "AS15169 Google LLC",
        "timezone": "Asia/Taipei"
      },
      "category": "domestic/cloud"
    }
  ]
}

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