Website down? Server Error 500

[Frau Potter]

We are aware of an outages. Engineers are looking into it and will get it fixed soon.

[+Harry Dolphin]

Yes.  It went down about 5:30 EDT, whilst I was trying to log a find.

[+Mineral2]

I keep seeing Server Error 500 on all pages at Geocaching.com. Is the site down for you too?

[+cheech gang]

yep.   Give it time to catch its breath

[Moun10Bike]

The devs are aware and working on the issue. Thanks!

[+Harry Dolphin]

Back up and working.  Thanks.

[+Lt.Ranger.Bob]

Is this causing my user name to not work on GC.com? It is telling me that I can not have a "." in my user name but I have had my user name for over 10 years. I tried logging in without the "." 's in my user name but it gave me the same error. 

[+Sherminator18]

I'm not sure if this is coming from the same issue, but when I went to geocaching .com today on my Chromebook, it told me that the site is not secure. Also all profile pictures won't load.

[+NYPaddleCacher]

On 12/2/2017 at 5:30 PM, Mineral2 said:

I keep seeing Server Error 500 on all pages at Geocaching.com. Is the site down for you too?

Technically, a Server error 500 does not indicate that the server or site is down.  The server is responding to a request with an error.  A 500 error indicates that while processing a request "something went wrong" and the processing terminated before it  constructed a proper response.  There may be many different reasons that could cause a 500 error from out of memory issues, full file systems, databases that are down, programming errors, or many other issues.  Rather than return a specific error message it just returns a 500 response.Typically,the reason why a process terminated isn't of any use to end users and it can be considered a security issue to give too many details.