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Not down, but 403'd.

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> Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

My guess is that the page is in fact down (probably MySQL is stopped), but that the permissions on the 500 error page are set wrong and thus Apache is returning a 403 as it tries to show the error page, instead of a 500.

Perhaps Adecco/PR firm reached out to the author, to solve the matter. Or that is what we can hope at least.

The site appears to be password protected now so something definitely happened. Or the site just got overloaded and the author decided to pull the plug.

The whole site is down, which makes me wonder if they exceeded their bandwidth due to coverage of this. If so, at least the story is getting attention.

Another possibility is that they were advised by council to take it down, but it does no good to speculate.

"website is still being worked on. Stay tuned."

https://twitter.com/80worldjobs/status/348094066929590272

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