Stop the Presses! Update!

[foxmonkey]

Literally...stop the presses.

The Stop the Presses site is down. For the last few weeks users have had varying degrees of success accessing illuminations.nu sites. Because of these problems, illuminations.nu moved to a new webhost yesterday afternoon. The sites are down at the moment, until the new domain is globally propagated.

Now the bad news.

During the information transfer, every image file on the site was corrupted. If you're a regular at Stop the Presses, you know what this means. The site as it was cannot be recovered.

Scotty and I had a great time, and through the site, we made new friends. We'd like to thank Kaelie, Kristen, Gale, Aylex, Liz and Sai for their help in making 2003 a wonderful year.

Stop the Presses will relaunch in January and we hope to have an even better year in 2004!

The Halloween Scenefest will go live as planned this Friday, Halloween evening (October 31st). Watch for an announcement!

Thanks again to everyone who enjoyed the site. We'll be back better than ever in 2004. :-)

Stop the Presses. All JuC, all the time.

Comments

[timberho.livejournal.com]

NNNNOOOOOOO!!!!

Fox.. that's horrible. :( I'm so sorry to hear that. You and Scotty did an incredible job with the site. Can't wait to see it come back!

[chenin.livejournal.com]

That sucks beyond belief, but I'm glad to hear you plan to bring it back in the new year. For a second I thought you were going to give up for good.

[feenie.livejournal.com]

*sniff*

I am going to miss STP!! But as long as you are still doing it, I will still read.

:)

[joeysdramaqueen.livejournal.com]

:(

I'm so sorry!

[jciseveryonesho.livejournal.com]

I'm still waiting to hear from the old webhost about how I can access the files (I didn't expect to hear from them super fast, as it's Sunday and all). They're still there - I just don't know what to put as the hostname to ftp in. I'm hoping that I can just sub in the dns name server now that ftp.illuminations.nu doesn't work (kind of like the way I told you to login to the new space for now). I find it extremely hard to believe that the final answer is "well, no, sorry, you can't get into the space, even though you're still paying for it."

So there's still hope! One thing that's confusing me is how long it's taking for the domain name to point to the new space. Propagation shouldn't take longer than 24 hours, I thought, and my domain name company I think espoused that it would take 10. Right.

[scot-ty.livejournal.com]

::hugs::

We'll be back, sweetie. Everything happens for a reason. Remember that.

[jewelianna.livejournal.com]

Bummer, dude. But I'm glad you're not giving up completely, and I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with in January.

[tallories.livejournal.com]

*hugs* How bad is it? Can't the images be replaced easier than, say, site content?

[su-perisi.livejournal.com]

oy indeed. See? I've learned my lesson from "announcements" like this. I always, *always* back up.

But I'm really sorry to hear that it happened to you guys. At least it won't be gone forever because I really enjoyed it. :)

[stungunbilly.livejournal.com]

Oh, I am so sorry that you guys lost so much hard work.
The site was fantastic, and really a wish come true for me at least.
Thanks for all the pleasure it gave me in any case, and good luck with Mach 2.

[flambeau.livejournal.com]

Eek! I'm sorry, that really sucks. I'm glad you'll be doing a comeback later, though.

[fuskeez.livejournal.com]

Well, that deserves a squishy hug.

[charlidos.livejournal.com]

Oh damn! What a bummer. :( I love Stop the presses...
I'm very glad you're making a come back though!