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- 3StarLounger
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Error 503
I usually drop in to see the old place .....windows secrets forum.
For the past few days I cant reach the site either in Firefox or IE11 I get the Error 503 Backend fetch failed. (screen shot)
It must be my end as a search on Google doesn't throw up any results and I imagine there would be a lot of comments if it was a general thing.
Not that I miss the posts and replies over there..... but any ideas please?
For the past few days I cant reach the site either in Firefox or IE11 I get the Error 503 Backend fetch failed. (screen shot)
It must be my end as a search on Google doesn't throw up any results and I imagine there would be a lot of comments if it was a general thing.
Not that I miss the posts and replies over there..... but any ideas please?
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Jeff
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Re: Error 503
I heard that Penton (the new owners) are aware of the problem. They will have to solve the problem - the day-to-day admins don't have the means to do that.
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Hans
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Re: Error 503
Interesting description: Guru's meditating?
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Re: Error 503
They have forgotten to varnish the cache server.
Now the guru will have to meditate.
Now the guru will have to meditate.
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Hans
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Re: Error 503
The newest owners are Informa PLC located in London England. A contact there has said they have multiple web sites currently affected and it is an "all hands on deck" situation.
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Re: Error 503
Thanks, Joe. Let's hope they'll be able to repair it - currently windowssecrets.com doesn't load at all anymore....
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Hans
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Re: Error 503
The Windows Secrets website has now disappeared altogether:
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Hans
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Re: Error 503
(The domain will expire in less than a week; guess they'll have try to remember the secret handshake if they want to keep it going.)
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Re: Error 503
Apparently it has been down for a while...
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Re: Error 503
Guru meditation comes from the good old days when the Commodore Amiga was king. I saw many of those in the late 80's...Rudi wrote:Interesting description: Guru's meditating?
John
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Re: Error 503
Does anyone think it is significant that the Windows Secrets Twitter feed (which I have just come across) says absolutely nothing about the loss of the main site/forums? (last Tweet on 12 Feb...)
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Re: Error 503
The last message on their Twitter feed is from the 12th of February, the last day the site was available. I have no idea whether that is significant or not.
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Hans
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Sorry, Hans, I must have added the bit about 12 Feb when you were typing something v. similar!
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Re: Error 503
It must be a serious problem - WindowsSecrets and other Informa/Penton sites have been down for 8 days now...
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Hans
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Re: Error 503
The Windows Secrets website is back, without any explanation of the situation. The WS Lounge however, has an invalid certificate and even if you ignore that, you end up on a 404 page...
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Hans
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Re: Error 503
Seems to be some progress though. It's 99 fixes closer to Zero!
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Rudi
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