"the Great God (snicker)" - James 'Bear' Llewellyn
Currently getting this on the main site -
Server Error in '/' Application.
Runtime Error
Description: An exception occurred while processing your request. Additionally, another exception occurred while executing the custom error page for the first exception. The request has been terminated.
Home page, mail, profile, probably more.
Is this maintenance or are techs aware?
Getting it on Android and Chrome and Laptop - Win8 and Firefox
You're not alone. I've been getting the same most of the afternoon on the desktop site The entire domain seems to be screwed up.
Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 112 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 2 poems with the following features:
* 29 Editor's Picks, 74 Recommended Reads. * 15 competition podium places, 10 other times in the top ten. * 21 collaborations. * A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
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Seems like everything but the forums are down (profiles, stories, etc.). Haven't tried groups or chat since I don't really use either.
Quote by seeker4 Haven't tried groups or chat since I don't really use either.
By the looks of things, it's the whole 'www' lushstories.com domain that's affected. Mobile site, cams, tube and forums are subdomains so they're unaffacted at the mo.
Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 112 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 2 poems with the following features:
* 29 Editor's Picks, 74 Recommended Reads. * 15 competition podium places, 10 other times in the top ten. * 21 collaborations. * A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
By the looks of things, it's the whole 'www' lushstories.com domain that's affected. Mobile site, cams, tube and forums are subdomains so they're unaffacted at the mo.
Same experience here, been getting error messages for around four hours now. Also experienced occasional outages nine or ten hour ago.
"the Great God (snicker)" - James 'Bear' Llewellyn
Quote by amy221 I have the same problem, no idea what to do. I'm not very good with computers.
My understanding is that it is a server side issue, so nothing you can do.
I do wonder if anyone is aware as I've not seen any 'we're working on it' notices.
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With email affected, we can't just email Nicola or Gav so I'm not sure how to ensure they are even notified. Wish the forums had tagging/@ mentions so we could just tag them to the thread. I will see if the contact form is working but I doubt it.
EDIT: Well, there doesn't seem to be a link to the contact from from the forums and the home page is still down so ... nope, that's not going to work. Anyone have them on FB or something?
EDIT 2: Remembered that Nic and I follow each other on Twitter so I DM'd her.
I guessed their Lush email addresses and sent messages to both from my account, but whether they arrive is anyone's guess.
To my partially-trained eye, it appears to be a website misconfiguration or permissions issue or catastrophic hardware failure as it's refusing to locate any of the server pages. So direct email delivery to the domain may still be up, it's just that we can't get to the webmail interface until the site is fixed. If nicola or gav have set up email forwarding to their personal email accounts, we might be lucky.
A few times it's bombed out with a 503 instead of a 404, which may indicate the server is rebooting. Whether this is gav trying to fix it or the server periodically restarting itself and then just reverting to its previous 404 behaviour, I'm not sure.
Please browse my digital bookshelf. In this collection, you can find 112 full stories, 10 micro-stories, and 2 poems with the following features:
* 29 Editor's Picks, 74 Recommended Reads. * 15 competition podium places, 10 other times in the top ten. * 21 collaborations. * A whole heap of often filthy, tense, hot sex.
Gav is trying to get to the bottom of the downtime.
He thinks it's a Windows server update causing the problem, and trying to come up with a workaround.
Don't you just love these "updates"? Seems they cause more issues than they fix most of the time.
Apologies folks. I hate the site being down more than anyone.
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Don't you just love these "updates"? Seems they cause more issues than they fix most of the time.
Don't get me started. I've been managing Windows and Windows Server for over two decades and the number of times MS updates have broken stuff ... yeah.
Quote by nicola Gav is trying to get to the bottom of the downtime.
He thinks it's a Windows server update causing the problem, and trying to come up with a workaround.
Don't you just love these "updates"? Seems they cause more issues than they fix most of the time.
Apologies folks. I hate the site being down more than anyone.
Might I ask why you are using Windows? In forty years I have never used a GUI-based server and I've never dealt with the aggravations Microsoft clients contend with on a regular basis.
My husband runs a Windoze PC because there is software he requires which is not available on any other platform. He stopped allowing automatic updates many years ago.
My recommendation would be some form of BSD or one of the commercial Linuxes. I have personally had great success in the past with FreeBSD and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
And we are gone again... Definitely time for bed then x
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The entire domain seems to be screwed up.
